Entity Framework 6 - Knowledge Base (KB)

What does EntityFramework's proxy mean?

I've used ...EntityFramework... as an ORM in my projects and I don't have any problem in using this technology. I heard EntityFramework creates a proxy. I want to know WHAT proxy this ORM creates? What it does? And, when EF creates it? In the other words,...

Permanently disable Configuration.ProxyCreationEnabled in EF?

Instead of having to do the following on every query, is there a way to just set that value globally? There is a lazyloading setting in the model view, but there does not seem to be a setting for the ProxyCreation.... using (var context = new LabEn...