实体框架CodeFirst Migration

Question

I got ASP.MVC application. I use entity framework with default configuration (no connection string provided) so it creates .mdf file in APP_DATA .

If I wanna move my project to another pc and try a clean depoly, should I remove this .mdf from APP_DATA ?

Answer 1

If you want to try a clean deployment , then YES. If you copy the database file it will be reused and so the migrations are not run (again), as they are already applied.

Answer 2

Assuming that you are using Migrations in your project there should not be any problem.
on new machine you can use command
in your visual studio package manager consol and it will create a new database tables on you new machine.

it will only create database schema if you need data also to get copied on to new machine you need to use some export utility.