Question

I am using EF 4.1 and have created a repository using DBContext etc. Connection string set to point to a SQL Server 2008 R2 Dev edition.

When I run a console app that calls my gateway which in turn adds an entity and saves, an exception is thrown saying it can’t find the table. When I look at my db, there is a database created but there are no tables created automatically except EmdMetadata.

Am I missing something?

Mark

Answer 1

To set the auto drop and create you would do something like this…

public class MyDbContext : DbContext 
{
    public IDbSet<Foo> Foos { get; set; }

    protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
    {
        Database.SetInitializer(new MyDbContextInitializer());

        base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);
    }
}

public class MyDbContextInitializer : DropCreateDatabaseIfModelChanges<MyDbContext>
{
    protected override void Seed(MyDbContext dbContext)
    {
        // seed data

        base.Seed(dbContext);
    }
}