EF 4.1 Code First - OnModelCreating call time

Question

When I debug my application this method seems not to be executing in constructor context of DbContext. So when it is called then?

Answer 1

OnModelCreating triggers when EF4 is creating the database. Usually this event is used to configure the way EF4 generates the database, so if you executed your application before and your model remains the same, the database is already there and EF4 does not try to generate a new one (although this behaviour also depends on some configuration parameters).