ASP.NET MVC 4 - WebSecurity.InitializeDatabaseConnection called multiple times error

Question

I have a Seed method in my Migrations/Configuration.cs:

  protected override void Seed(MVC4App.Models.MVC4Entities context)
  {
     try
     {
        // Initialize database for Account
        WebSecurity.InitializeDatabaseConnection(
           "MVC4Entities", "Users", "UserId", "Email", autoCreateTables: true);

If I try and run 'update-database -verbose' on my dev machine I get this error:

The "WebSecurity.InitializeDatabaseConnection" method can be called only once.

That is the only place in my code that it is called. How can I fix this?

Thanks

Answer 1

add a check for initialization :

if (!WebSecurity.Initialized)
{
WebSecurity.InitializeDatabaseConnection(
           "MVC4Entities", "Users", "UserId", "Email", autoCreateTables: true);
}