Invalid object name 'dbo.EdmMetadata' and 'dbo.__MigrationHistory'

Question

I am using Entity Framework 5 and doing a simple query to get a few users from a table.

The SQL database is already created so I use my entities as a way to map what

Answer 1

Since the database is already there you will not have dbo.EdmMetadata and dbo.__MigrationHistory which codefirst is expecting. And to resolve this you can try to set the SetInitializer to null.

 static NameOfYourContext()
 {
   Database.SetInitializer<NameOfYourContext>(null);        
 }      

You can see this in the comments section of the this post by Scott Gu

Answer 2

There are 3 steps you need to follow:

1- Enable migrations in package manager if you haven't done yet:

Enable-Migrations

2- Add a migration and make sure to use the -IgnoreChanges switch as you already have an existing database:

Add-Migration InitialModel -IgnoreChanges

3- Update the database. This will automatically create __MigrationHistory table for you.

Update-Database

Answer 3

I disabled my exception setting. and it overlooked this exception and went on to create these tables for me automatically