If you create an entity before calling DbTable.Add() or DbTable.Attach() if you check the state, it'll be detached.

If you load entities from the db they should always be attached.

+++ Rick ---

>Hi everybody,
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>I am wondering why would our EntityState will always be Detached?
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>We're not using the model classes directly in our client part of the application. In our methods we use ModelView and convert model class to a ModelView through AutoMapper and back when sending changes back to the backend.
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>Is it what makes the entities detached and so that's why we're manually setting the state to Modified?
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>Thanks in advance.