I've started building an ASP.NET MVC3 project on Mac OS using Xamarin Studio. I now want to add new properties and models to the project but I can't for the life of me work out how to run the Nuget Package Manager console in order to run the Enable-Migrations command.
Am I asking too much? Is this possible or will I have to go back to Visual Studio on Windows?
All of the Entity Framework Migrations commands are just thin wrappers over an underlying API. To enable migrations, simply create a new class that derives from DbMigrationsConfiguration<TContext>
in your project.
For Add-Migration
use code similar to the following.
var config = new MyMigrationsConfiguration();
var scaffolder = new MigrationScaffolder(config);
var migration = scaffolder.Scaffold("Migration1");
File.WriteAllText(migration.MigrationId + ".cs", migration.UserCode);
File.WriteAllText(migration.MigrationId + ".Designer.cs", migration.DesignerCode);
using (var writer = new ResXResourceWriter(migration.MigrationId + ".resx"))
{
foreach (var resource in migration.Resources)
{
writer.AddResource(resource.Key, resource.Value);
}
}
For Update-Database
see Running & Scripting Migrations from Code by Rowan Miller.