Seed method not called, Entity Framework 6

Question

I have a DatabaseInitializer class

public class DatabaseInitializer : CreateDatabaseIfNotExists
{
    protected override          


        

Answer 1

If you are using Code-First then you can populate the data when the application runs for the first time.

• Create a DbInitializer

  public class MyDbInitializer : IDatabaseInitializer
  {
     public void InitializeDatabase(MyDbContext context)
     {
        if (context.Database.Exists())
        {
          if (!context.Database.CompatibleWithModel(true))
          {
              context.Database.Delete();
          }
        }
        context.Database.Create();
  
        User myUser = new User()
        {
          Email = "a@b.com",
          Password = "secure-password"
        };
        context.Users.AddOrUpdate(p => p.Email, myUser);
        context.SaveChanges();
     }
  }
  

• Register this DbInitializer in your Global.asax.cs Application_Start method

  Database.SetInitializer(new My.namespace.MyDbInitializer());