Await Context.database.ensure CreatedAsync

Introduction Data seeding can be used to set initial data or for testing purposes. Learn about seeding a database with EF Core using a switch in the project configuration file. There are several methods to accomplish controlling data seeding. Comment out the code to generate data Setup code that reads from appsettings.json or a similar file. Use an environment variable.

Introduction The main objective is to demonstrate creating data for Microsoft EF Core that is the same every time the application runs and/or unit test run. The secondary objective is to show how to use IOptions and AddTransient to read information from appsettings.json which is not gone over completely so if interested see the following GitHub repository which has code samples for console and web projects.