Enable Migrations with Context in Separate Assembly?

Question

I have one project that I want to run my update-database against but I have my Models and Context in a separate project.

If I run enable-migration

Answer 1

You may only run "Enable-Migrations" in the project containing the Database Context class.

Your solution will contain 2 projects:

1) MyProject.Models
    |- Migrations
        |- 201401061557314_InitialCreate.cs
        |- Configuration.cs
    |- MyContext.cs
    |- App.config (no connection string)

App.config

2) MyProject.MVC
        |- Filters
            |- InitializeSimpleMembershipAttribute.cs

InitializeSimpleMembershipAttribute.cs

namespace MyProject.MVC.Filters
{
    [AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Class | AttributeTargets.Method, AllowMultiple = false, Inherited = true)]
    public sealed class InitializeSimpleMembershipAttribute : ActionFilterAttribute
    {
        private static SimpleMembershipInitializer _initializer;
        private static object _initializerLock = new object();
        private static bool _isInitialized;

        public override void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)
        {
            // Ensure ASP.NET Simple Membership is initialized only once per app start
            LazyInitializer.EnsureInitialized(ref _initializer, ref _isInitialized, ref _initializerLock);
        }

        private class SimpleMembershipInitializer
        {
            public SimpleMembershipInitializer()
            {
                try
                {
                    Database.SetInitializer(new MigrateDatabaseToLatestVersion());

                    using (var context = new MyContext())
                    {
                        context.Database.Initialize(force: true);
                        if (!context.Database.Exists())
                        {
                            // Create the SimpleMembership database without Entity Framework migration schema
                            ((IObjectContextAdapter)context).ObjectContext.CreateDatabase();
                        }
                    }

                    WebSecurity.InitializeDatabaseConnection("DefaultConnection", "UserProfile", "UserId", "UserName", autoCreateTables: true);
                }
                catch (Exception ex)
                {
                    throw new InvalidOperationException("The ASP.NET Simple Membership database could not be initialized. For more information, please see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=256588", ex);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Set MyProject.MVC as startup project

In package manager, select project: MyProject.Models

Then run "Enable-Migrations" to create "Migrations" folder in MyProject.Models

Followed by "Update-Database" -> migrations will use connection string in Web.config from startup project to perform migration