title: Entity Framework partial load
body: <p>I have the following columns in my table</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Id (int)</li>
  <li>Name (nvarchar) usually &lt; 100 characters</li>
  <li>Data (nvarchar) average 1MB</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I'm writing a program that will go through each row and perform some operations to the Name field. Since I'm only using the Name field and the Data field is very large, is it possible to direct EF to only load the Id and Name field?</p>