In this chapter, we saw how to use Entity Framework to maintain a database schema. You learned that we can enable migrations on a project by running the Enable-Migrations commandlet inside the NuGet package manager console. Once we enabled migrations, which created a configuration class, we could start moving the schema of our database forward. Developers have two options for migrations. They can rely on automatic migrations or create explicit migrations. Automatic migrations have limitations. Some tasks, such as setting a default value, are not possible. In order to ensure migrations consistency, developers may opt to only use explicit migrations. All explicit migrations inherit from the DbMigration class, which contains methods to allow developers to update a schema of the target database. This class exposes a method that allows us to create or drop tables, create, drop and alter columns, create and drop indexes, and so on. Finally, when an appropriate method is not found or when...