stuck in EF migration limbo
entity-framework, entity-framework-migrations
Solution
What worked for me was:
- Reverting all my changes (making a backup first) back to a known good state.
- Doing `add-migration DummyMigration`. That produced some spurious changes that I commented
- Called `update-database` to add the migration + metadata to the `[__MigrationHistory]` table.
- Make the changes I needed (from the backup of the code I took earlier).
- Do the normal `add-migration`/`update-database`.
Not ideal, and would be cool to see if there's a better solution, but that worked for me.
Problem
i have somehow gotten my EF5 project into a state where I can't proceed. When I do an 'update-database' i get: Unable to update database to match the current model because there are pending changes and automatic migration is disabled. Either write the pending model changes to a code-based migration or enable automatic migration. Set DbMigrationsConfiguration.AutomaticMigrationsEnabled to true to enable automatic migration. You can use the Add-Migration command to write the pending model changes to a code-based migration. ok, fine, so i try to 'add-migration', and i get: Unable to generate an explicit migration because the following explicit migrations are pending: [ ]. Apply the pending explicit migrations before attempting to generate a new explicit migration. 20 GOTO 10 ?? what am i supposed to do at this point? (beyond switching to NHibernate?)