Question

How can I get the DbContext from a POCO’s Proxy in EF 4.1 ?

I can see the ObjectContext in the debugger, but can’t find the DbContext.

Answer 1

DbContext has this overloaded constructor:

public DbContext(ObjectContext objectContext, bool dbContextOwnsObjectContext)

So, you could try this to create a DbContext wrapping the objectContext which you retrieved from your proxy: Create an appropriate constructor for your derived context…

public class MyContext : DbContext
{
    public MyContext(ObjectContext objectContext,bool dbContextOwnsObjectContext)
        : base(objectContext, dbContextOwnsObjectContext)
    {
    }
}

…and then call it this way:

var myContext = new MyContext(objectContext, false);