Error While Enabling Code-First Migrations On Mobile Services Database

Question

I have an Azure Mobile Services project (C# backend) that I recently created and attached to an Azure SQL database. I have been trying to enable Code-First Migrations on that ba

Answer 1

Several of the answers about deriving from a custom entity class will work, but they are not the ideal solution. As the EF team (and others) have mentioned, you need to simply add this line to your Context Configuration constructor.

 SetSqlGenerator("System.Data.SqlClient", new EntityTableSqlGenerator());

This will remove your errors when creating migrations and allow you to update the database via powershell command.