My SQL Server is hosted by my hosting provider. This means that I don’t have permission to recreate (or create) the database.
This is causing me a problem with EF 4 – it thinks the tables are missing, which they are. I think is caused by not being able to recreate the database.
To recap: developed locally, moving to hosted server for first time run, switched the connection string, run against the hosted server, error saying Invalid object name ‘dbo.Products’.
I have permission to create anything else apart from the DB
Am I correct in this assumption and how do I work around this?
In EF 4.3 you can use the Package Manager Console from the tools menu item in visual studio. This will allow you to use migrations to generate a DB script. More info here
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adonet/archive/2012/02/09/ef-4-3-code-based-migrations-walkthrough.aspx
You could of course create a drop and create script yourself