Data Migrations

vbboyd · November 30th, 2012, 05:16 PM

Does ASP.NET 4.5 make use of entity framework 5 that use code based data migrations? Because I remember in the last book on ASP.NET 4.0 in specifically chapter 12 it was quite the effort to build and generate the SQL server schema using the tools in ASP.NET 4.0. server explorer. Because I know that in MVC 4 you can use the NUGET package manager console to enable migrations, which makes life somewhat less complicated than if you are constantly having to go through all of the SQL server explorer tools.

Thanks :-)

Imar · November 30th, 2012, 06:04 PM

Migrations is a EF Code First feature which is not discussed in the book.

Cheers,

Imar

vbboyd · November 30th, 2012, 07:28 PM

What about publishing apps to WindowsAzure? I have seen that publishing apps in MVC4 is now very simple if you want to post your application to the cloud. It makes deployment of your applications very easy and fast. As I recall from your previous book, deploying applications had whole chapter on how do it which was a real bear. Downloading a publish profile for the cloud makes deploying your web app pretty seemless and pretty easy to do. Do you cover any of that in your new book?

Thanks :-)

Imar · November 30th, 2012, 07:47 PM

Nope, I don't cover Azure. Check out the TOC to see what the book does cover: http://media.wiley.com/product_data/...8311809-89.pdf

Cheers,

Imar