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Sachin Kainth
Sachin Kainth

Reputation: 46750

Package Manager Console crashes when using Add-Migration

I am using Package Manager Console to add migrations to my database and for some reason it just freezes and does nothing. The only way to stop it and continue using it is to close down Visual Studio using the Task Manager. Is this a known issue?

Upvotes: 13

Views: 3286

Answers (2)

Maxime
Maxime

Reputation: 8969

Based on Sean Keating's answer, if it solved your "Enable-Migrations" problem, you must know that it might not be enough.

Add-Migration

To create a new migration script, you do it like you would do it normally:

Add-Migration MyModifications

Update-Database

To update the database though, you will have to specify your context's project:

Update-Database -ProjectName MyProject.Framework

Where I specified:

  • -ProjectName as the project that held my Context file

Upvotes: 0

Sean Keating
Sean Keating

Reputation: 1728

I'm not sure if this is a known issue, but I had the same problem, and found a solution for it.

I had to run: 

Enable-Migrations -ContextTypeName MyContext -ProjectName MyProject.Framework -StartUpProjectName MyProject.Web

Where I specified:

  • -ContextTypeName as the name of my context
  • -ProjectName as the project that held my Context file
  • -StartUpProjectName as the project that held the web application.

You can reference this resource for more information: http://coding.abel.nu/2012/03/ef-migrations-command-reference/

Upvotes: 6

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