VS2013 Debugger + Entity Framework: “runtime has refused to evaluate the expression”, crashes

Question

I\'m experiencing a lot of problems with Entity Framework 6.0.1 in the VS2013 Ultimate debugger when debugging into unit tests against code that\'s hitting a live SQL Server

Answer 1

Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 promises to fix this error, found in the comments at:

http://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2013/Nov/21/Visual-Studio-2013-Could-not-evaluate-Expression-Debugger-Abnormality