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Interface IDesignTimeModel

Namespace
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Metadata
Assembly
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.dll

The metadata about the shape of entities, the relationships between them, and how they map to the database. Also includes all the information necessary to initialize the database.

public interface IDesignTimeModel

Remarks

The service lifetime is Scoped. This means that each DbContext instance will use its own instance of this service. The implementation may depend on other services registered with any lifetime. The implementation does not need to be thread-safe.

See Implementation of database providers and extensions for more information and examples.

Properties

Model

Gets the metadata about the shape of entities, the relationships between them, and how they map to the database. Also includes all the information necessary to initialize the database.

IModel Model { get; }

Property Value

IModel