Can someone clarify my thinking on association fixup code in Entity Framework (T4 generated POCOs) please?
A recent comment regarding fix-up stated 'For example code-first doesn't use them and everything still works'.
I'm a little confused on this fixup stuff - seems no-one likes it - I certainly don't like it polluting my POCOs (though my reason is because of performance issues) yet it is not clear to me in what scenarios would I really need it.
If I am using short-lived data context lifetimes i.e. new context for each page request (UoW) in an ASP.NET application, then should I worry at all if I were to rip out all the association fix-up code from the T4 template (finally nice clean POCOs)?
EDIT
I found this discussion on MSDN 'Fixup Goes Crazy' which does provide some clarification: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/pl-PL/adodotnetentityframework/thread/a757d1fb-1339-422e-a03a-2b90ce4cd692