Removing associated entities from an EF entity

Question

I have an enitity with many other tables connected to it. What i would like to do is, after i've created an instance of a certain entity, remove all properties that connect it to other entities/tables. Is this possible? Thanks

Answer 1

I believe you just assign null to single navigation properties and call Clear on children naviagation properties:

Employee
{       
    SomeOtherEntity SomeOtherEntityNavigation { get; set;}    
    ICollection<Blah>  Blahs {get; set;}    
}    

//somewhere
anEmployee.SomeOtherEntityNavigation = null;
anEmployee.Blahs.Clear();

Then save your DBContext.

Also note, that when you initially create an instance of an entity, it will not have any relationships with other entities unless you have some magic going on somewhere in your data layer or DB that is automatically associating new entities.