I have set up my POCOs and I have marked their public properties as virtual and I am successfully getting Proxies most of the time (95%) but randomly I am getting EF return some proxies and some non-proxies.
Recycling the app pool when this happens will then fix this instance of the error and it will go away for an amount of time. Then it will re-occur in some other random (it seems) place.
What can cause this sort of behaviour?
Thanks, Kohan
Solved it (im getting in the habit of almost giving up, posting here and then solving it)
Anyway, when I was adding a new Question i was using something like var q = new Question() this was then being stored as a non-proxy. In the end i found out by creating a new Question on the ObjectContext like so var q = ObjectContext.CreateObject<Question>(); causes it to be a proxy and works just fine and dandy.
Hope this helps someone,
Cheers,
Kohan.
A helpful source : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adonet/archive/2009/06/10/poco-in-the-entity-framework-part-3-change-tracking-with-poco.aspx (read the comments)