webdeploy - Automatically execute migrations when publishing ASP.NET Core app

Question

Question

Is there any ways that I can automatically execute the migration code (EF 7) when publishing my ASP 5 application to IIS using Web Deploy?

I Tried

• in the project.json, I added this code in the scripts:

  "scripts" : { "prepublish": ["dnx ef database update", "other commands..."], "postpublish": ["dnx ef database update"] }

none worked for me.

Additional Info

I followed the instructions on this link to deploy my ASP 5 RC-1 web application to IIS using web deploy.

After doing so in the publish settings I have:

Using web deploy in ASP 4 applications I have additional database options:

Answer 1

Use context.Database.Migrate()

You can call this from your Startup class:

using (var context = new MyContext(...))
{
    context.Database.Migrate();
}

It will migrate your database to the latest version on application startup. But be careful doing it, maybe comment out this code and uncommend only when you want to run your migrations.