EF 6 Lazy Loading Disabled but Child Record Loads Anyway

Question

I\'m using EF6 code first. There are two tables, Lesson and LessonSections. The LessonSections table has a foreign key to Lesson

Answer 1

is this a problem for you, or are you just curious as to why its happening?

The DBContext keeps track of all references for you. When you load the sections, it knows that the lessons have references to them, and wires it up for you.

you could stop this by disconnecting the objects , or by loading the sections from a different dbcontext

myDbContext.Entry(someLesson).State=Detached;

For the serialization issue, see this Q&A How Do You "Really" Serialize Circular Referencing Objects With Newtonsoft.Json?

or

http://johnnycode.com/2012/04/10/serializing-circular-references-with-json-net-and-entity-framework/