DbSet , Entity Framework and Get Set

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I am setting up a database using Entity Framework and wanted a bit of clarification regarding creating a DbSet for one of my models.

public DbSet<Customer> CustomersTable { get; set; }

I noticed that the DBset (table) only gets created only if I include the { get; set; } and then add migration. Why is this { get; set; } necessary to be included ?

Matthew Merryfull · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-11 05:10:17Z

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EF Migrations performs an analysis of your codebase prior to creating a migration, which is why your codebase must compile successfully in order to create a migration. This analysis is based upon rules and structures, much like most of the language transformations from source to object code. EF is no different. Syntactically in order to create a migration script that includes new tables, its not the declaration of a class, its the combination of a property with get/setters that makes the table creation work.

No black magic, just rules.

answered May 11, 2020 at 5:10

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