Saving a single entity instead of the entire context
I've run into a scenario where I essentially need to write the changes of a child entity of a one-to-many association to the database, but not save any changes made to the parent entity.

The Entity Framework currently deals with database commits in the context scope (EntityContext.SaveChanges()), which makes sense for enforcing relationships, etc. But I'm wondering if there is some best practice or maybe a recommended way to go about doing fine-grained database commits on individual entites instead of the entire context.
Saving a single entity instead of the entire context
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I've run into a scenario where I essentially need to write the changes of a child entity of a one-to-many association to the database, but not save any changes made to the parent entity.

The Entity Framework currently deals with database commits in the context scope (EntityContext.SaveChanges()), which makes sense for enforcing relationships, etc. But I'm wondering if there is some best practice or maybe a recommended way to go about doing fine-grained database commits on individual entites instead of the entire context.