EF5 Code First: Detect if it creates a database so I can run ALTER statements

Question

I am new with Entity Framework 5. Our team is using Code First workflow.

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Answer 1

If you don't use (or cannot use) EF migrations you can use custom initializer as mentioned in this answer. The custom initializer will execute a Seed method after creating the database = only once when database doesn't exist. If you need to incrementally develop the database initializer itself will not help you (that is what migrations are for).