How to run Seed() method of Configuration class of migrations

Answering your first question. Create a Migration by running add-migration SeedOnly

Clear out all Up() and Down() code generated if there was any pending changes

public partial class SeedOnly : DbMigration
{
    public override void Up()
    {
    }

    public override void Down()
    {
    }
}

Then you can Target a Specific Migration by running update-database -TargetMigration SeedOnly in the Package Manager console


After research I finally found the workaround for this issue:

1) Make Configuration public:

public sealed class Configuration : DbMigrationsConfiguration<YourContextClassHere>

2) Add the code below anywhere. It will run the latest migration and update your database:

Configuration configuration = new Configuration();
configuration.ContextType = typeof(YourContextClassHere);
var migrator = new DbMigrator(configuration);

//This will get the SQL script which will update the DB and write it to debug
var scriptor = new MigratorScriptingDecorator(migrator);
string script = scriptor.ScriptUpdate(sourceMigration: null, targetMigration: null).ToString();
Debug.Write(script);

//This will run the migration update script and will run Seed() method
migrator.Update();