One of the new features of Entity Framework 4.1 is the DbContext API which is basically a simplification of the ObjectContext API, and is intended to make your life a bit easier. In this new API you can find the DbSet.Find method which according to MSDN does the following: “Uses the primary key value to attempt to find an entity tracked by the context. If the entity is not in the context then a query will be executed and evaluated against the data in the data source , and null is returned if the...