Question

I’m trying to deploy a MVC4 EF5 code-first application on Azure. After publishing I get this error on the site:

Error. An error occurred while processing your request.

I guess thats because the tables aren’t being created in the database?

My connectionstring:

Data Source=tcp:6666666.database.windows.net,1433;Initial Catalog=eatart_db;User Id=kasperskov@6666666;Password=yourmother

I have automatic migrations enabled in the config and I am executing it on deployment:

internal sealed class Configuration : DbMigrationsConfiguration<EatArt.Models.EatArtDb>
{
        public Configuration()
        {
            AutomaticMigrationsEnabled = true;
        }
}

In my Application_Start (global.asax):

Database.SetInitializer(new DropCreateDatabaseIfModelChanges<EatArtDb>());

ALSO. This notification pops op on my azure portal:

The server encountered an error while retrieving metrics. Retry the
operation.

What am I missing here? Am I doing anything wrong?

Answer 1

As Ben Tidman suggested, I ran the Update-Database command in the package manager console onto the Azure database. That triggered the creation of the tables and I was able to deploy a view the page right away.

Ps. Had to add Trusted_Connection=false and encrypt=true to the connection string of course..