Question

Is there a way to get EF CTP5 to create an index when it creates a schema?

Update: See here for how EF 6.1 handles this (as pointed out by juFo below).

Answer 1

You can take advantage of the new CTP5’s ExecuteSqlCommand method on Database class which allows raw SQL commands to be executed against the database.

The best place to invoke SqlCommand method for this purpose is inside a Seed method that has been overridden in a custom Initializer class. For example:

protected override void Seed(EntityMappingContext context)
{
    context.Database.ExecuteSqlCommand("CREATE INDEX IX_NAME ON ...");
}