>>New feature coming to NHibernate: http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2010/01/27/nhibernate-new-feature-lazy-properties.aspx
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>>Does EF have this functionality available?
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>Looks like it's in EF in .NET 4 - but I haven't tried it
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>One thing I noticed in the link:
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>"What about multiple lazy properties? NHibernate support them, but you need to keep one thing in mind. NHibernate will load *all* the entity’s lazy properties, not just the one that was immediately accessed."
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>Not sure whether this is a good thing or a bad thing - bottom line is it will depend on the circumstances but there's nothing you can do about it. Also I've no idea whether EF will have the same behaviour.......

Sure, but I would imagine that a lazy property would be an exception rather than the norm, right? So maybe it wouldn't be that big of a deal to load all of entity's lazy properties.