Error when trying to create a C# EF core migration, System.NullReferenceException: Object reference-CodePudding

I am practicing dependency injection in C# Winforms .Net 6.0. I have separate projects for DAL, BAL, Services, and the WinForms app. At the moment of injecting the dependencies in the Program.cs, everything runs normally, but when I want to create a migration from the console I get this error:

PM> Add-Migration InitialLoad

Build started... Build succeeded. System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at MaravilClient.Program.<>c.b__5_1(DbContextOptionsBuilder options) in D:\Repos\MaravilClient\MaravilClient\Program.cs:line 36 at Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.EntityFrameworkServiceCollectionExtensions.<>c__DisplayClass1_02.<AddDbContext>b__0(IServiceProvider p, DbContextOptionsBuilder b) at Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.EntityFrameworkServiceCollectionExtensions.CreateDbContextOptions[TContext](IServiceProvider applicationServiceProvider, Action2 optionsAction) at Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.EntityFrameworkServiceCollectionExtensions.<>c__DisplayClass17_01.<AddCoreServices>b__0(IServiceProvider p) at Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.ServiceLookup.CallSiteRuntimeResolver.VisitFactory(FactoryCallSite factoryCallSite, RuntimeResolverContext context) at Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.ServiceLookup.CallSiteVisitor2.VisitCallSiteMain(ServiceCallSite callSite, TArgument argument) at Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.ServiceLookup.CallSiteRuntimeResolver.VisitCache(ServiceCallSite callSite, RuntimeResolverContext context, ServiceProviderEngineScope serviceProviderEngine, RuntimeResolverLock lockType) at Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.ServiceLookup.CallSiteRuntimeResolver.VisitScopeCache(ServiceCallSite callSite, RuntimeResolverContext context) at Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.ServiceLookup.CallSiteVisitor2.VisitCallSite(ServiceCallSite callSite, TArgument argument) at Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.ServiceLookup.CallSiteRuntimeResolver.Resolve(ServiceCallSite callSite, ServiceProviderEngineScope scope) at Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.ServiceLookup.DynamicServiceProviderEngine.<>c__DisplayClass2_0.<RealizeService>b__0(ServiceProviderEngineScope scope) at Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.ServiceProvider.GetService(Type serviceType, ServiceProviderEngineScope serviceProviderEngineScope) at Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.ServiceLookup.ServiceProviderEngineScope.GetService(Type serviceType) at Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.ServiceProviderServiceExtensions.GetRequiredService(IServiceProvider provider, Type serviceType) at Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.ServiceProviderServiceExtensions.GetRequiredService[T](IServiceProvider provider) at Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.EntityFrameworkServiceCollectionExtensions.<>c__171.b__17_1(IServiceProvider p) at Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.ServiceLookup.CallSiteRuntimeResolver.VisitFactory(FactoryCallSite factoryCallSite, RuntimeResolverContext context) at Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.ServiceLookup.CallSiteVisitor2.VisitCallSiteMain(ServiceCallSite callSite, TArgument argument) at Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.ServiceLookup.CallSiteRuntimeResolver.VisitCache(ServiceCallSite callSite, RuntimeResolverContext context, ServiceProviderEngineScope serviceProviderEngine, RuntimeResolverLock lockType) at Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.ServiceLookup.CallSiteRuntimeResolver.VisitScopeCache(ServiceCallSite callSite, RuntimeResolverContext context) at Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.ServiceLookup.CallSiteVisitor2.VisitCallSite(ServiceCallSite callSite, TArgument argument) at Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.ServiceLookup.CallSiteRuntimeResolver.VisitIEnumerable(IEnumerableCallSite enumerableCallSite, RuntimeResolverContext context) at Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.ServiceLookup.CallSiteVisitor2.VisitCallSiteMain(ServiceCallSite callSite, TArgument argument) at Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.ServiceLookup.CallSiteRuntimeResolver.VisitCache(ServiceCallSite callSite, RuntimeResolverContext context, ServiceProviderEngineScope serviceProviderEngine, RuntimeResolverLock lockType) at Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.ServiceLookup.CallSiteRuntimeResolver.VisitScopeCache(ServiceCallSite callSite, RuntimeResolverContext context) at Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.ServiceLookup.CallSiteVisitor2.VisitCallSite(ServiceCallSite callSite, TArgument argument) at Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.ServiceLookup.CallSiteRuntimeResolver.Resolve(ServiceCallSite callSite, ServiceProviderEngineScope scope) at Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.ServiceLookup.DynamicServiceProviderEngine.<>c__DisplayClass2_0.b__0(ServiceProviderEngineScope scope) at Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.ServiceProvider.GetService(Type serviceType, ServiceProviderEngineScope serviceProviderEngineScope) at Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.ServiceLookup.ServiceProviderEngineScope.GetService(Type serviceType) at Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.ServiceProviderServiceExtensions.GetRequiredService(IServiceProvider provider, Type serviceType) at Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.ServiceProviderServiceExtensions.GetRequiredService[T](IServiceProvider provider) at Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.ServiceProviderServiceExtensions.GetServices[T](IServiceProvider provider) at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design.Internal.DbContextOperations.FindContextTypes() at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design.Internal.DbContextOperations.FindContextType(String name) at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design.Internal.DbContextOperations.CreateContext(String contextType) at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design.Internal.MigrationsOperations.AddMigration(String name, String outputDir, String contextType, String namespace) at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design.OperationExecutor.AddMigrationImpl(String name, String outputDir, String contextType, String namespace) at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design.OperationExecutor.AddMigration.<>c__DisplayClass0_0.<.ctor>b__0() at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design.OperationExecutor.OperationBase.<>c__DisplayClass3_0`1.b__0() at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design.OperationExecutor.OperationBase.Execute(Action action) Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Here my Program.cs Code:

using DAL.DataContext;
using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting;
using Services.ClientActions;
using Services.UserActions;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace MaravilClient
{
    internal static class Program
    {
        /// <summary>
        ///  The main entry point for the application.
        /// </summary>
        [STAThread]
        static void Main()
        {
            Application.SetHighDpiMode(HighDpiMode.SystemAware);
            Application.EnableVisualStyles();
            Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);

            var host = CreateHostBuilder().Build();
            ServiceProvider = host.Services;
            var dataContext = ServiceProvider.GetRequiredService<MaravilContext>();
            dataContext.Database.Migrate();
            Application.Run(ServiceProvider.GetRequiredService<Inicio>());
        }
        public static IServiceProvider ServiceProvider { get; private set; }
        static IHostBuilder CreateHostBuilder()
        {
            return Host.CreateDefaultBuilder()
                .ConfigureServices((context, services) => {
                    services.AddDbContext<MaravilContext>(options =>
                                                   options.UseSqlServer(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["ConnString"].ConnectionString),ServiceLifetime.Scoped,ServiceLifetime.Scoped);
                    services.AddTransient<IUserActions, UserActions>();
                    services.AddTransient<IClientActions, ClientActions>();
                    services.AddTransient<Inicio>();
                });
        }
      }
}

this image shows the reading of the connection string in a MessageBox.

What am I doing wrong?

CodePudding user response：

You need to set the related project before run commands (where your dbcontext in ) , Use terminal to set that specific project .After that you can run your migration commands.

CodePudding user response：

I have found the solution.

I have added a json configuration file, to which I set the property of: Copy to Output Directory=> Copy always. I also added the connection string to this json file. The CreateHostBuilder code looks like this:

static IHostBuilder CreateHostBuilder()
    {
       
        return Host.CreateDefaultBuilder()
            .ConfigureAppConfiguration(x=>x.AddJsonFile("appConfig.json"))
            .ConfigureServices((context, services) => {
                services.AddDbContext<MaravilContext>(options =>
                                               options.UseSqlServer(context.Configuration.GetConnectionString("SQLConnection")));
                services.AddTransient<IUserActions, UserActions>();
                services.AddTransient<IClientActions, ClientActions>();
                services.AddTransient<Inicio>();
            });
    }

and finally, to execute the migrations from the console/PowerShell it is necessary to specify the csproj address of the migration context like this:

dotnet ef migrations add InitialModification -p ..\DAL\DAL.csproj

Thanks to all for your contributions.