EF CTP4 lazy loading not playing ball

Question

I'm using the CTP4 code first EF framework, but I'm having problems getting lazy loading to work. Reading up on it, it should be simple, but it's just not

public class Folder
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public int? ParentFolderId { get; set; }

    public virtual IList<Folder> ChildFolders { get; set; }
}

In the model configuration:

HasMany(f => f.ChildFolders).WithOptional().HasConstraint((child, folder) => child.ParentFolderId == folder.Id);

However, when I do this:

Folder folder = context.Folders.SingleOrDefault(f => f.Id == 1);

folder.ChildPages is null....but it should be lazy loading it...

Answer 1

Is your context based on DbContext or ObjectContext? If it is ObjectContext then you have to turn on lazy loading in ContextOptions.

Answer 2

I found the answer to this actually - the empty constructor for "Folder" was marked internal, and although there were no hard failures, it seems this was enough to cause problems.