How to get original values of an entity in Entity Framework?

@Eranga answer is outdated for EF 5. For some reason, EF 5 doesn't work fine when getting original values using an statement like this:

var originalValues = context.Entry(myEntity).OriginalValues;

My working solution uses AsNoTracking() method from DbSet, like the example below:

var originalEntity = context.MyEntities.AsNoTracking().FirstOrDefault(me => me.MyEntityID == myEntity.MyEntityID);

You can access them through ObjectStateEntry

var originalValues = context
         .ObjectStateManager.GetObjectStateEntry(myEntity).OriginalValues;

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