LINQ-to-SQL eagerly load entire object graph

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Published on 2010-05-12T11:50:12Z Indexed on 2010/05/12 11:54 UTC
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I have a need to load an entire LINQ-to-SQL object graph from a certain point downwards, loading all child collections and the objects within them etc. This is going to be used to dump out the object structure and data to XML.

Is there a way to do this without generating a large hard coded set of DataLoadOptions to 'shape' my data?

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