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_6

6. Seeding Data

Eric Vogel¹  

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Okemos, MI, USA

 

In the last chapter, we finally created our database using Entity Framework Core 5. In this chapter, we will seed our database with some data. We will add a few sample persons and addresses and load up our lookup tables with some states and countries.

Populating Lookup Data

We will start out by populating some lookup records for states and countries. To get started, open the AppDbContext class file. To seed data, we override the OnModelCreating method like this:

protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)

{

}

The OnModelCreating event can also be used to configure the database schema, ...