A confusing connection problem using Entity framework and Migrations

Recently I have stumbled upon a strange exception that raised in my application. It has led to an exception with a confusing message “Could not determine storage version; a valid storage connection or a version hint is required.” Thankfully I have solved this issue finally.

By Mirek on 1/28/2015 (tags: EF, migrations, categories: code)

InitialCreate migration and why is it important

Entity Framework migrations is indeed a great feature. It makes you don’t need to worry about the database schema updates almost at all. There are however few things you must know to properly understand and use EF migrations. This post describes few of those things.

By Mirek on 10/13/2014 (tags: Entity Framework, migrations, categories: architecture, tools, code)