[c#] Entity Framework Migrations renaming tables and columns

To expand a bit on Hossein Narimani Rad's answer, you can rename both a table and columns using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.Schema.TableAttribute and System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.Schema.ColumnAttribute respectively.

This has a couple benefits:

  1. Not only will this create the the name migrations automatically, but
  2. it will also deliciously delete any foreign keys and recreate them against the new table and column names, giving the foreign keys and constaints proper names.
  3. All this without losing any table data

For example, adding [Table("Staffs")]:

[Table("Staffs")]
public class AccountUser
{
    public long Id { get; set; }

    public long AccountId { get; set; }

    public string ApplicationUserId { get; set; }

    public virtual Account Account { get; set; }

    public virtual ApplicationUser User { get; set; }
}

Will generate the migration:

    protected override void Up(MigrationBuilder migrationBuilder)
    {
        migrationBuilder.DropForeignKey(
            name: "FK_AccountUsers_Accounts_AccountId",
            table: "AccountUsers");

        migrationBuilder.DropForeignKey(
            name: "FK_AccountUsers_AspNetUsers_ApplicationUserId",
            table: "AccountUsers");

        migrationBuilder.DropPrimaryKey(
            name: "PK_AccountUsers",
            table: "AccountUsers");

        migrationBuilder.RenameTable(
            name: "AccountUsers",
            newName: "Staffs");

        migrationBuilder.RenameIndex(
            name: "IX_AccountUsers_ApplicationUserId",
            table: "Staffs",
            newName: "IX_Staffs_ApplicationUserId");

        migrationBuilder.RenameIndex(
            name: "IX_AccountUsers_AccountId",
            table: "Staffs",
            newName: "IX_Staffs_AccountId");

        migrationBuilder.AddPrimaryKey(
            name: "PK_Staffs",
            table: "Staffs",
            column: "Id");

        migrationBuilder.AddForeignKey(
            name: "FK_Staffs_Accounts_AccountId",
            table: "Staffs",
            column: "AccountId",
            principalTable: "Accounts",
            principalColumn: "Id",
            onDelete: ReferentialAction.Cascade);

        migrationBuilder.AddForeignKey(
            name: "FK_Staffs_AspNetUsers_ApplicationUserId",
            table: "Staffs",
            column: "ApplicationUserId",
            principalTable: "AspNetUsers",
            principalColumn: "Id",
            onDelete: ReferentialAction.Restrict);
    }

    protected override void Down(MigrationBuilder migrationBuilder)
    {
        migrationBuilder.DropForeignKey(
            name: "FK_Staffs_Accounts_AccountId",
            table: "Staffs");

        migrationBuilder.DropForeignKey(
            name: "FK_Staffs_AspNetUsers_ApplicationUserId",
            table: "Staffs");

        migrationBuilder.DropPrimaryKey(
            name: "PK_Staffs",
            table: "Staffs");

        migrationBuilder.RenameTable(
            name: "Staffs",
            newName: "AccountUsers");

        migrationBuilder.RenameIndex(
            name: "IX_Staffs_ApplicationUserId",
            table: "AccountUsers",
            newName: "IX_AccountUsers_ApplicationUserId");

        migrationBuilder.RenameIndex(
            name: "IX_Staffs_AccountId",
            table: "AccountUsers",
            newName: "IX_AccountUsers_AccountId");

        migrationBuilder.AddPrimaryKey(
            name: "PK_AccountUsers",
            table: "AccountUsers",
            column: "Id");

        migrationBuilder.AddForeignKey(
            name: "FK_AccountUsers_Accounts_AccountId",
            table: "AccountUsers",
            column: "AccountId",
            principalTable: "Accounts",
            principalColumn: "Id",
            onDelete: ReferentialAction.Cascade);

        migrationBuilder.AddForeignKey(
            name: "FK_AccountUsers_AspNetUsers_ApplicationUserId",
            table: "AccountUsers",
            column: "ApplicationUserId",
            principalTable: "AspNetUsers",
            principalColumn: "Id",
            onDelete: ReferentialAction.Restrict);
    }

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