I am reading through the book EF Code First by Julie Lerman. In the book, a database is created which contains tables generated from the domain model, as well a table named edmmetadatatable. Apparently, this table is needed for checking if there are any changes made to the other tables.
But, I don’t have it. And I don’t know how to get it.
One thing I did differently from the book was that I added my own connection string since code first defaults for SQLEXPRESS and I don’t have SQLEXPRESS.
The book is covering Entity Framework 4.2 which uses the
EdmMetadatatable. When migrations were introduced in EF 4.3, a__MigrationHistorytable was introduced instead.See here for more information.