Is there a command to check to see if a database exists from Entity Framework?

Question

I may have worded the question poorly but in my global.asx file i use

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Answer 1

In Entity Framework Core it works like this:

namespace Database
{
    using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Infrastructure;
    using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Storage;

    public partial class MyContextClass
    {
        /// 

        /// Checks if database exists
        /// 
        /// 
        public bool Exists()
        {
            return (this.Database.GetService() as RelationalDatabaseCreator).Exists();
        }
    }
}

Make sure the class name equals your database Context class name and is in the same namespace.

Use it like this:

var dbExists = (MyContextClass)db.Exists()

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