Global setting for AsNoTracking()?

In EntityFramework.Core it is very easy.

For this purpose you can use UseQueryTrackingBehavior method.

Code snippet is here:

services.AddDbContext<DatabaseContext>(options =>
{
    options.UseQueryTrackingBehavior(QueryTrackingBehavior.NoTracking);
    options.UseSqlServer(databaseSettings.DefaultConnection);
});

What about simply exposing method like this on your derived context and use it for queries:

public IQueryable<T> GetQuery<T>() where T : class {
    return this.Set<T>().AsNoTracking();
}

Setting AsNoTracking globally is not possible. You must set it per each query or per each ObjectSet (not DbSet). The latter approach requires using ObjectContext API.

var objectContext = ((IObjectContextAdapter)dbContext).ObjectContext;
var set = objectContext.CreateObjectSet<T>();
set.MergeOption = MergeOption.NoTracking;
// And use set for queries

You could do something like this in your DbContext:

public void ObjectContext_OnObjectMaterialized(Object objSender, ObjectMaterializedEventArgs e)
{
    Entry(e.Entity).State = EntityState.Detached;
}

Every time an object is materialized by your context, it will be detached and no longer tracked.

Since this question is not tagged with a specific EF version, I wanted to mention that in EF Core the behavior can be configured at the context level.

You can also change the default tracking behavior at the context instance level:

using (var context = new BloggingContext())
{
    context.ChangeTracker.QueryTrackingBehavior = QueryTrackingBehavior.NoTracking;

    var blogs = context.Blogs.ToList();
}