ApplicationContext is now obsoleted as per 1777 in FM repo: https://github.com/fluentmigrator/fluentmigrator/pull/1777 We should clean up and remove any documentation that refers to ApplicationContext - https://fluentmigrator.github.io/articles/obsolete/app-context.html?q=applicationcontext - https://fluentmigrator.github.io/api/v2.x/FluentMigrator.Runner.VersionTableInfo.IVersionTableMetaData.html?q=applicationcontext - https://fluentmigrator.github.io/api/v5.x/FluentMigrator.MigrationBase.html#FluentMigrator_MigrationBase_ApplicationContext Along with any other locations in the documentation that refers to this.