ASP - Core Migrate EF Core SQL DB on Startup

Question

Is it possible to have my ASP Core Web API ensure the DB is migrated to the latest migration using EF Core? I know this can be done through the command line, but I want to

Answer 1

This works for me in ASP.NET Core 3.1, simply injecting the db context as a parameter to the Configure method after registering it in the ConfigureServices method.

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    services.AddDbContext(x => x.UseSqlite("Data Source=LocalDatabase.db"));

    ...
}

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IWebHostEnvironment env, DataContext dataContext)
{
    dataContext.Database.Migrate();

    ...
}

More details and links to full code samples available at https://jasonwatmore.com/post/2019/12/27/aspnet-core-automatic-ef-core-migrations-to-sql-database-on-startup