Entity Framework Core Cookbook - Second Edition

Creating databases from code

As we start down the code-first path, there are a couple of things that could be true. If we already have a database, then we will need to configure our objects to that schema, but what if we do not have one? That is the subject of this recipe: creating a database from the objects we declare.

Getting ready

We will be using the NuGet Package Manager to install the Entity Framework Core 1 package, Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore. We will also be using a SQL Server database for storing the data, so we will also need Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer.

To mock interfaces and base classes, we will use Moq.

Finally, xunit is the package we will be using for the unit tests and dotnet-text-xunit adds tooling support for Visual ...