部署ASP.Net MVC 5网站后应用更改

Question

I'm currently developing an ASP.Net MVC 5. The problem is, I have always coded the websites and handed them over to other people who managed the deployment and maintenance. I have never been on the other side of the production and now I have to be. I have read some articles for ASP.Net MVC 3 but since I am creating this project with MVC 5, I was wondering what I should do in situations where the models need some changes. For instance:

• I rename field or column
• Add another field to the model with acceptable default values (maybe even null)
• Remove a field
• ...

Answer 1

You should be able to generate the script needed to update your database. See this post for more information. Basically it says:

Run the Update-Database command but this time specify the –Script flag so that changes are written to a script rather than applied.

Open your package manager console (Tools > Library Package Manager > Package Manager Console), target your migrations project, and run "Update-Database -Script".

Then take the script and run it against your production / staging / testing / whatever environment.