How to unapply a migration in ASP.NET Core with EF Core
Asked 07 September, 2021
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When I run PM> Remove-Migration -context BloggingContext in VS2015 with an ASP.NET Core project using EF Core I get the following error:

System.InvalidOperationException: The migration '20160703192724_MyFirstMigration' has already been applied to the database. Unapply it and try again. If the migration has been applied to other databases, consider reverting its changes using a new migration.    at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Migrations.Design.MigrationsScaffolder.RemoveMigration(String projectDir, String rootNamespace, Boolean force) 
    at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design.MigrationsOperations.RemoveMigration(String contextType, Boolean force) 
    at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools.Cli.MigrationsRemoveCommand.<>c__DisplayClass0_0.<Configure>b__0() 
    at Microsoft.Extensions.CommandLineUtils.CommandLineApplication.Execute(String[] args) 
    at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools.Cli.Program.Main(String[] args) 
 The migration '20160703192724_MyFirstMigration' has already been applied to the database. Unapply it and try again. If the migration has been applied to other databases, consider reverting its changes using a new migration.

How can I unapply it? I'm using latest release of ASP.NET Core 1.0, EF Core, and VS2015 Update 3.

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