How to deploy migrations to deployment site

Question

My question is if I create a migration on development site, do I need to create it also manually via command line on the deployment site? If not, how do the migrations transfer from the development site to the deployment site?

Answer 1

You can either do this during a Publish by setting "Execute Code First Migrations" in the publish profile:

Or you can change your database connection string in your project to the deployment site and then run Update-Database which will run using that connection string.

You can avoid managing the string via the app.config (or Web.config) by explicitly naming the connection string as in this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/10724679/2347118