Unable to Migrate after Adding Config to Startup

Hi everyone,

Just a quick post on fixing up a migration error after I added new config to startup.cs via DI. The error after running add-migration was pretty unintuitive:

Unable to create an object of type 'ApplicationDbContext'. For the different patterns supported at design time, see https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=851728

To find out a bit more I ran the following:

add-migration -verbose

This revealed the fact that there was an issue with adding my config line. The error stated that I had to have an empty constructor which led me on a bit of a wild goose chase.

The solution was simply a missed entry in application.json. In my case it was an omitted “assembly” section. Having said that, I did come across a few instances where people had the same problem when omitting commas etc.

Hopefully that’s able to get you on the right track!

Thanks,
Chris