aspnet/Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Toolsv8.0.20
✓ Verified.NET 10.0
Entity Framework Core Tools for the NuGet Package Manager Console in Visual Studio. Enables these commonly used commands: Add-Migration Bundle-Migration Drop-Database Get-DbContext Get-Migration Optimize-DbContext Remove-Migration Scaffold-DbContext Script-Migration Update-Database
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$ dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.ToolsReadme
The Entity Framework Core tools help with design-time development tasks. They're primarily used to manage Migrations and to scaffold a DbContext and entity types by reverse engineering the schema of a database.
This package, Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools is for PowerShell tooling that works in the Visual Studio Package Manager Console (PMC).
Usage
Install the tools package by running the following in the Visual Studio PMC:
Install-Package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools
The available commands are listed in the following table.
| PMC Command | Usage |
|---|---|
| Add-Migration | Adds a new migration. |
| Bundle-Migration | Creates an executable to update the database. |
| Drop-Database | Drops the database. |
| Get-DbContext | Gets information about a DbContext type. |
| Get-Help EntityFramework | Displays information about Entity Framework commands. |
| Get-Migration | Lists available migrations. |
| Optimize-DbContext | Generates a compiled version of the model used by the DbContext. |
| Remove-Migration | Removes the last migration. |