How to get ApplicationDbContext out of the Owin pipeline

Question

This has to be simple, but I\'m going bug-eyed trying to find the answer. How does a controller action get a reference to the per-request ApplicationDbContext that was stashed

Answer 1

And the answer (apparently) is... You need to add this using statement to get it to work:

using Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.Owin;

so a complete example would look like:

using Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.Owin;

public class HomeController : Controller
{
    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        var context = HttpContext.GetOwinContext().Get<ApplicationDbContext>();
        DoSomething(context); // Use the context object; do not dispose it!

        return View();
    }
}