运行Entity Framework .cs文件以创建数据库表的命令

Question

I have just pulled the solution of C# rest API. In the solution under web project I have a Migration folder which contains a number of .cs files to create table in database.

The files are like 84618186***_InititalCreate , 68686186***_AddXyz , 86454186***_ExtendXyz . I have absolutely no knowledge about Entity Framework.

I tried the Add-Migration command but it added a file. Update-database added some tables to the database but remaining tables are still not created. What my little experience about this says is there must be a command which will create the tables in SQL Server from all these files.

So I just want to know how to do it. reference to any specific link on stack will also help I did searched for half an hour but didn't find anything helpful.

Answer 1

If you want to create a new database, change your connection string to point to the new, empty database. Then you can create an idempotent script that will walk through all the migrations and apply them:

Update-Database -Script -SourceMigration: $InitialDatabase

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/jj591621.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396#idempotent

Another alternative would be to temporarily change your database initializer to one that recreates the database like DropCreateDatabaseAlways then switch it back.

http://blog.oneunicorn.com/2013/05/28/database-initializer-and-migrations-seed-methods/