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Running & Scripting Migrations from Code

Posted on February 9, 2012. Filed under: Entity Framework, Visual Studio | Tags: Code First, DbContext, EF, Entity Framework, Migrations |

Code First Migrations is included as part of Entity Framework starting with the EF 4.3 release. Migrations are normally created and run from the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio. These commands are just thin wrappers over public APIs that you can call directly from your own code. In this post you’ll see how to [...]

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Customizing Code First Migrations Provider

Posted on January 16, 2012. Filed under: Entity Framework, Visual Studio | Tags: Code First, DbContext, EF, Entity Framework, Migrations |

Code First Migrations is included as part of Entity Framework starting with the EF 4.3 release. One feature we haven’t really blogged about yet is the ability to include additional arguments in a migration operation. These arguments are then made available to the SQL generator. You can then derive from the SQL generators that we [...]

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Magic Free Code First Migrations

Posted on July 29, 2011. Filed under: Entity Framework, Visual Studio | Tags: Code First, DbContext, EF, Entity Framework, Migrations |

This post is now out of date. Be sure to check out EF 4.3 Beta 1. <transparency>I work for Microsoft</transparency> (just kidding… but I couldn’t leave the tag open) We recently released a very early preview of Code First Migrations and it’s been getting some mixed feedback, the negative feedback falls into three buckets: [...]

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