public static void EnsurePopulated(IApplicationBuilder application) { BookStoreDbContext context = application.ApplicationServices.CreateScope().ServiceProvider.GetRequiredService <BookStoreDbContext>(); if (context.Database.GetPendingMigrations().Any()) { context.Database.Migrate(); } if (!context.Books.Any()) { context.Books.AddRange( new Book { Title = "Les Miserables", Author = "Victor Hugo", Publisher = "Signet", ISBN = "978-0451419439", Classification = "Fiction", Category = "Classic", Price = 9.95 }, new Book { Title = "Team of Rivals", Author = "Doris Kearns Goodwin", Publisher = "Simon & Schuster", ISBN = "978-0743270755", Classification = "Non-Fiction", Category = "Biography", Price = 14.58 }, new Book { Title = "the Snowball", Author = "Alice Schroeder", Publisher = "Bantam", ISBN = "978-0553384611", Classification = "Non-Fiction", Category = "Biography", Price = 21.54 }, new Book { Title = "American Ulysses", Author = "Ronald C. White", Publisher = "Random House", ISBN = "978-0812981254", Classification = "Non-Fiction", Category = "Biography", Price = 11.61 }, new Book { Title = "Unbroken", Author = "Laura Hillenbrand", Publisher = "Random House", ISBN = "978-0812974492", Classification = "Non-Fiction", Category = "Historical", Price = 13.33 }, new Book { Title = "The Great Train Robbery", Author = "Michael Crichton", Publisher = "Vintage", ISBN = "978-0804171281", Classification = "Fiction", Category = "Historical Fiction", Price = 15.95 }, new Book { Title = "Deep Work", Author = "Cal Newport", Publisher = "Grand Central Publishing", ISBN = "978-1455586691", Classification = "Non-Fiction", Category = "Self-Help", Price = 14.99 }, new Book { Title = "It's Your Ship", Author = "Michael Abrashoff", Publisher = "Grand Central Publishing", ISBN = "978-1455523023", Classification = "Non-Fiction", Category = "Self-Help", Price = 21.66 }, new Book { Title = "The Virgin Way", Author = "Richard Branson", Publisher = "Portfolio", ISBN = "978-1591847984", Classification = "Non-Fiction", Category = "Business", Price = 29.16 }, new Book { Title = "Sycamore Row", Author = "John Grisham", Publisher = "Bantam", ISBN = "978-0553393613", Classification = "Fiction", Category = "Thrillers", Price = 15.03 } ); } context.SaveChanges(); }