EF 4.1 Code First and Existing Database and .NET Membership

Question

I have a database called ApplicationName_Development running on SQL Server 2008 R2 Developer edition on my development box.

I added .NET membership tables to the databas

Answer 1

Here's another possibility.

If you look at the MvcMusicStore sample - there's a SampleData class that is responsible for seeding the database on a rebuild. The SampleData class inherits from DropCreateDatabaseIfModelChanges, and overrides the Seed method. This class is passed to the Database.SetInitializer in the Application_Start method in global.asax.

I was getting the same error as you until I changed the parent class of SampleData to CreateDatabaseIfNotExist.

Then you can override the Seed method to insert any data you desire at startup, without it blowing away the database.