13.5. Using Proxies to Enable Change Notification, Lazy Loading, and Relationship Fix-Up

As you read earlier, DetectChanges also forces the context to update the ObjectStateEntry objects that it uses for change tracking. When you call DetectChanges, the context takes a snapshot of the current state of the entities.

It is possible to force the entities to notify the context of changes so that you don’t have to wait until you (or the SaveChanges method) call DetectChanges.