Migration: Helpful When Seeding Database and Error is Thrown

Using Entity Framework Migration, I was seeding a database.

From the Package Manager Console window and after entering Update-Database, an error was displayed.

Validation failed for one or more entities. See 'EntityValidationErrors' property for more details.

This was the only information about error, and the error message didn’t indicate any good advise what caused the error.

Shown below is a work-around found at StackOverflow, which helped pin point the error.

Stackoverflow Overridding SaveChanges

public partial class Database : DbContext
{
    public override int SaveChanges()
    {
        try
        {
            return base.SaveChanges();
        }
        catch (DbEntityValidationException ex)
        {
            var sb = new StringBuilder();

            foreach (var failure in ex.EntityValidationErrors)
            {
                sb.AppendFormat("{0} failed validation\n", failure.Entry.Entity.GetType());
                foreach (var error in failure.ValidationErrors)
                {
                    sb.AppendFormat("- {0} : {1}", error.PropertyName, error.ErrorMessage);
                    sb.AppendLine();
                }
            }

            throw new DbEntityValidationException(
                "Entity Validation Failed - errors follow:\n" +
                sb.ToString(), ex
                ); // Add the original exception as the innerException
        }
    }
}

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