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- What are Migrations? 4:41
- Enabling Migrations 6:06
- Code First Migrations Review 5 questions
- The Configuration Class 2:09
- Adding Our First Migration 4:05
- The Migration Fluent API 6:04
- Updating the Database 4:13
- Populating Our Database with Seed Data 7:31
- Using the Configuration Class to Add Seed Data 1 objective
- Excluding Test Data in Production 5:54
- Using a Preprocessor Directive to Exclude Test Data 1 objective
- Section Review 10 questions

- 2x 2x
- 1.75x 1.75x
- 1.5x 1.5x
- 1.25x 1.25x
- 1.1x 1.1x
- 1x 1x
- 0.75x 0.75x
- 0.5x 0.5x
Let's see how we can use Code First Migrations to seed our database with lookup and test data.
Follow Along
To follow along commiting your changes to this course, you'll need to fork the dotnet-ef-migrations repo. Then you can clone, commit, and push your changes to your fork like this:
git clone <your-fork>
cd dotnet-ef-migrations
git checkout tags/v1.5 -b populating-our-database-with-seed-data
Code
You can download the C# seed test data from this GitHub Gist.
https://gist.github.com/smashdevcode/a4962b1a28365a74abc00a0b5d0ea79a
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