aspnet/dotnet-efv8.0.15
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Entity Framework Core Tools for the .NET Command-Line Interface. Enables these commonly used dotnet-ef commands: dotnet ef migrations add dotnet ef migrations list dotnet ef migrations script dotnet ef dbcontext info dotnet ef dbcontext scaffold dotnet ef database drop dotnet ef database update
Get Started
$ dotnet add package dotnet-efReadme
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, dotnet-ef is for cross-platform command line tooling that can be used anywhere.
Usage
Install the tool package using:
dotnet tool install --global dotnet-ef
The available commands are listed in the following table.
| Command | Usage |
|---|---|
| dotnet ef --help | Displays information about Entity Framework commands. |
| dotnet ef database drop | Drops the database. |
| dotnet ef database update | Updates the database to the last migration or to a specified migration |
| dotnet ef dbcontext info | Gets information about a DbContext type. |
| dotnet ef dbcontext list | Lists available DbContext types. |
| dotnet ef dbcontext optimize | Generates a compiled version of the model used by the DbContext. |
| dotnet ef dbcontext scaffold | Generates a DbContext and entity type classes for a specified database. |
| dotnet ef dbcontext script | Generates a SQL script from the DbContext. Bypasses any migrations. |