Beginning Entity Framework Core 5: From Novice to Professional

© Eric Vogel 2021

E. VogelBeginning Entity Framework Core 5https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6882-7_5

5. Creating a Database from Code

Eric Vogel¹  

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Okemos, MI, USA

 

So far we have created our entities and their metadata to instruct Entity Framework Core 5 what to create. As you will soon see, the process of taking those instructions and having them be interpreted by Entity Framework Core 5 to create your database is as simple as creating an initial migration and running that migration using Visual Studio. We will primarily be using the Microsoft SQL Server provider for Entity Framework Core in this book and thus will be creating a SQL Server database.

Setting the Connection String

The first step in creating a database from code in Entity Framework ...