code-first

Another day, another issue. This time, I was absent-mindedly following the guidance for a project on how to generate .sql files for .NET EF Core code-first migrations. Don't ask why that was required, but it was. My migration was simple....

This post describes the easiest way to debug the issues that may stop your Seed-method in Configuration.cs from going through. This problem concerns typically your ASP.NET MVC projects, either on .NET Framework or ....

While using Entity Framework and code-first migrations, Entity Framework (EF) creates the indexes for you - but what if you need to create a custom one, explicitly based on a certain field/column?...

This post describes an issue with EF's code-first migrations, when mapping between DB's DateTime (datetime2) and C#'s DateTime simply fails, and results in the Update-Database cmdlet failing, too....