Execution Sequence of Entity Framework

When talking about Entity Framework its important to understand the operations happening,

Loading metadata
Happens only once in each application domain. Model and mapping metadata used by EF is loaded into MetadataWorkspace.

Opening the database connection
EF opens and closes database connection as needed. 

Generating views
This is usually a costly operation

Preparing the query

Executing the query

Loading and validating types

Tracking



Materializing the objects