Question

I am practicing Entity Framework. I am practicing Asp.net MVC framework using Razor Engine and EF Code First. In practicing it, I found to have few problems. The problem is the Entity Framework doesnt creates a database in my SQL.
I am using VisualStudio 2011 Beta Version with MSSQL 2008. I dont know what the problem is.
Help required. Below is my Code :

    Person.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace MvcDemo.Data
{
    public class Person
    {
        [Key]
        public int PersonID { get; set; }

        [Required]
        [StringLength(40)]
        public string FirstName { get; set; }

        [Required]
        [StringLength(30)]
        public int LastName { get; set; }

        public int? Age { get; set; }

        [ForeignKey("PrefixID")]
        public Prefix Prefix { get; set; }


        [Required]
        public int PrefixID { get; set; }

    }
}

    Prefix.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace MvcDemo.Data
{
    public class Prefix
    {
        public int PrefixID { get; set; }

        [Required]
        [StringLength(20)]
        public string PrefixName { get; set; }
    }
}

MvcContext.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Data.Entity;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using MvcDemo.Data;


namespace MvcDemo.DataAccess
{
    public class MvcContext : DbContext
    {
        public MvcContext()
            : base("name = MvcDemoApp")
        {
        }
        public DbSet<Person> People { get; set; }

        public DbSet<MvcDemo.Data.Prefix> Prefix { get; set; }

    }
}

ConnectionString:
<connectionStrings>
    <add name="MvcDemoApp" 
         connectionString="Server=.;Initial Catalog=MvcDemoApp;Integrated Security=true" 
  providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />

Answer 1

If this is all of your code it is not surprising that a database is not created. There is no code that executes commands against the database. As soon as you start iterating over e.g. MvcContext.People or do some insert you will notice that the database gets created.