I am building a simple MVC application for managing a library. For development purposes, I would like the EF to drop and recreate the database everytime the model changes, as well as filling it with some sample data. At this moment I struggle at getting the initializer to work. The Initializer class looks like this:
public class LibraryInitializer : DropCreateDatabaseIfModelChanges<LibraryContext>
{
protected override void Seed(LibraryContext context)
{
// sample data to be writted to the DB
}
}
And the context class looks like this:
public class LibraryContext : DbContext
{
public DbSet<User> Users { get; set; }
public DbSet<Book> Books { get; set; }
public LibraryContext()
{
Database.SetInitializer<LibraryContext>(new LibraryInitializer());
}
}
At this moment I get the following error:
Member 'Database.SetInitializer(IDatabaseInitializer)' cannot be accessed with an instance reference; qualify it with a type name instead
Based on many guides available on the Web, this is the way to use the initializer, but I have no idea why this error occurs. Any help would be greatly appraciated. Thank you!
