Is there a way to tell if an entity is attached while debugging / inspecting an entity in visual studio

Question

Is there any way to tell if an Entity Framework entity is attached to a context when debugging in visual studio 2013

I.e if i quick-watch an entity how would i know if its attached?

or would i need to write an extension method and quick-watch that?

Answer 1

You can get the entity state by its entry:

context.Entry(entity).State

where context is your DbContext instance and entity is the entity to inspect.