Entity Framework not loading related objects

Question

I am new to Entity Framework, but might be misunderstanding something, or doing something wrong.

My code, to get me a list of tasks for a particular person :

Answer 1

What you are looking for is .Include you use it like this

var recordWithParentAttached = db.Tasks.Include(o => o.Person).Single(o => o.person_id == personId);

with .Include your parents (or related records) will get attached and passed across while without they will be nulls.