EF Code First DbMigration without nuget

Question

How to migrate DB without nuget? It is not possible to use Visual Studio with nuget in production environment. Currently, many examples only teach us to use Visual Studio wi

Answer 1

You can do it using the EF Power Tools, there's the migrate.exe program that you can use to run migrations from the command prompt (post build for example). If you want to run migrations on production database you can also use the Update-Database command to generate SQL scripts from the migration classes, very useful if you need to pass through a DBA.

EF Power Tools are available on the Visual Studio Gallery and optionally here, check out this very useful video that, among other things, talks about the Update-Database command.