How to remove circular reference in Entity Framework?

Question

The circular reference between my Customer and Order entities caused a exception during serialization. Is there any way to force EF to generate one-direction reference betwe

Answer 1

When you create an association in model designer (right click add->association) you'll get a popup windows which looks like this:

Notice the navigation property check boxes, you can deselect them if you don't want them to be generated. To solve your circular reference problem, make sure only one or none are checked, not both.