ef-migrations

I am using EF5 with MVC4. The problem is that I have large data in my DB which I already imported from legacy DB. I want to load seed that data when model changes. My question is how can I seed large amount of data that is already in my DB? internal sealed class Configuration : MigrationsConfiguration<VoiceLab.Models.EFDataContext> { public Configuration() { AutomaticMigrationsEnabled = true; } protected override void Seed(VoiceLab.Models.EFDataContext context) { //what to do here to seed thousands or records that are already in db } } thanks, Tepu Here is how you can seed bulk data by just

I have an error when trying to update my database after adding a migration. Here are my classes before add-migration public class Product { public Product() { } public int ProductId { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } public decimal Price { get; set; } public bool Istaxable { get; set; } public string DefaultImage { get; set; } public IList<Feature> Features { get; set; } public IList<Descriptor> Descriptors { get; set; } public IList<Image> Images { get; set; } public IList<Category> Categories { get; set; } } public class Feature { public int Id { get; set; } public string Title {

I have a system in production which was created with Entity Framework 4.1 Code First. Now, I have upgraded to 4.3 and need to apply migrations, but there's several use cases I need to cover: A new developer needs the database created from scratch with seed data. (The Seed() method also applies some unique indices.) The production environment needs only the unapplied changes applied. (But keep in mind that this DB was created in EF 4.1, which doesn't have migrations.) How do I create the migrations and an initializer (or initializers) to cover both these cases? Since your production database

I have a custom DatabaseInitialiser which is below /// <summary> /// Implements the IDatabaseInitializer to provide a custom database initialisation for the context. /// </summary> /// <typeparam name="TContext">TContext is the DbContext</typeparam> public class ParikshaDataBaseInitializer<TContext> : IDatabaseInitializer<TContext> where TContext : DbContext { /// <summary> /// The method to Initialise the database. /// Takes care of the database cannot be dropped since it is in use problem while dropping and recreating the database. /// </summary> /// <param name="context">The DbContext on