Improving bulk insert performance in Entity framework

Sometimes Entity Framework will have poor performance when inserting records. A possible workaround is to set the following flags:

yourContext.Configuration.AutoDetectChangesEnabled = false;
yourContext.Configuration.ValidateOnSaveEnabled = false;

This should be done before the calls to 'AddObject'.   In my case, this reduced the time a piece of code took to process 2,000 records from 8 minutes down to about 10 seconds.

This fix requires more research to determine if there are side-effects to setting these.  If this is a shared context, then the flags should be set back to their original values after 'SaveChanges' has been called.

Note that this only works with DBContext,and not ObjectContext