asp.net core 2.0 - Value cannot be null. Parameter name: connectionString

Question

I had the following error in package manager console when Add-Migration

Value cannot be null. Parameter name: connectionString

Answer 1

I had the same issue, but my solution was a lot simpler. All I did was to change the order of the appsettings.json from:

{
  "Message": "Hello World",
  "ConnectionStrings": {
    "DefaultConnection": "Server=(localdb)\\MSSQLLocalDB;Database=NotMyFault;Trusted_Connection=True;MultipleActiveResultSets=true"
  }
}

to:

{
   "ConnectionStrings": {
    "DefaultConnection": "Server=(localdb)\\MSSQLLocalDB;Database=NotMyFault;Trusted_Connection=True;MultipleActiveResultSets=true"
  },
  "Message": "Hello World"
}

I have a suspicion that there is a sequence/order of parameters in the appsettings.json file.