Entity Framework lazy loading doesn't work from other thread

Question

I just found out that lazy loading in Entity Framework only works from the thread that created the ObjectContext. To illustrate the problem, I did a simple test

Answer 1

Is this by design? Yes; any call to Load, implicit or explicit, will eventually go through the ObjectContext, and ObjectContext is documented to be not thread-safe.

A possible workaround would be to detach the entity from the object context in the worker thread and attach it to an object context in the current thread.