Question

I have an InDocDbContext: DbContext and an InDocDbContextInitializer: DropCreateIfModelChangesInitializer that “has been taught” to seed some initial data into the database.

I am trying my best to avoid putting an initialization code into my App_Start method in global.asax of my ASP.NET application.

I am using Ninject as an IOC container. Can I put Initialization logic inside NinjectModule or hide it in the context, so that I don’t have to bring it to global.asax code?

Answer 1

You can add it to context’s static constructor:

public InDocDbContext : DbContext
{
    static InDocDbContext() 
    {
        Database.SetInitializer<InDocDbContext>(new InDocDbContextInitializer());
    }
}

If you are using EF 4.3 or newer you can also simply define the initializer in web.config file. See original 4.3 documentation or documentation for the current version.