ef core don´t use ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT during update-database

Question

I use visual studio to update all my environments with a certain migration. It had worked fine using the command below.

update-database -Migration initMigrat         


        

Answer 1

I had the same problem like the reporter of this issue and tried out the recent solution in the Package Manager Console (PMC) and set the environment variable with the command:

$env:ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT='YOUR_ENVIRONMENT'

Unfortunetly I have a ConsoleApplication and use the generic host builder on startup with Host.CreateDefaultBuilder(). In this scenario the environment variable prefix is not ASPNETCORE_ but DOTNET_.

For me this command works in PMC:

$env:DOTNET_ENVIRONMENT='YOUR_ENVIRONMENT'

I want to thank Martin Florin and others to guide me in the correct direction.