EF Core Tools

EF Core Tools provide dotnet ef CLI commands to manage migrations, update databases, and scaffold models from existing databases.

Install EF Core Tools

dotnet tool install --global dotnet-ef

Verify:

dotnet ef --version

Key Commands

# Create a new migration
dotnet ef migrations add InitialCreate

# Apply migrations to database
dotnet ef database update

# Remove last migration
dotnet ef migrations remove

# Scaffold models from existing DB
dotnet ef dbcontext scaffold "ConnectionString" Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer

# List all migrations
dotnet ef migrations list

Coming Soon

Full walkthrough with examples coming soon!