auto create database in Entity Framework Core

Question

My application which is being ported to .NET core will use the new EF Core with SQLite. I want to automatically create the database and table structures when the app is firs

Answer 1

If you get the context via the parameter list of Configure in Startup.cs, You can instead do this:

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env,  LoggerFactory loggerFactory,
    ApplicationDbContext context)
 {
      context.Database.Migrate();
      ...