Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design 10.0.0-rc.2.25502.107

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.

The Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design package is required for either command-line or Package Manager Console-based tooling, and is a dependency of dotnet-ef and Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools.

Usage

Install the package into your project and then use either dotnet-ef or Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools.

By default, the package will install with PrivateAssets="All" so that the tooling assembly will not be included with your published app. For example:

<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design" Version="8.0.2">
    <PrivateAssets>all</PrivateAssets>
    <IncludeAssets>runtime; build; native; contentfiles; analyzers; buildtransitive</IncludeAssets>
</PackageReference>

Getting started with EF Core

See Getting started with EF Core for more information about EF NuGet packages, including which to install when getting started.

Feedback

If you encounter a bug or issues with this package,you can open an Github issue. For more details, see getting support.

Showing the top 20 packages that depend on Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design.

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Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools
Entity Framework Core Package Manager Console Tools. Includes Scaffold-DbContext, Add-Migration, and Update-Database.
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Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools
Entity Framework Core Package Manager Console Tools. Includes Scaffold-DbContext, Add-Migration, and Update-Database.
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Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools
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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Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools
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
92
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools
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
93
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools
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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Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools
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
114
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools
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
117
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools
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
139
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools
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
175
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools
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
183
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools
Entity Framework Core Tools for the NuGet Package Manager Console in Visual Studio. Enables these commonly used commands: Add-Migration Drop-Database Get-DbContext Get-Migration Remove-Migration Scaffold-DbContext Script-Migration Update-Database
92
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools
Entity Framework Core Tools for the NuGet Package Manager Console in Visual Studio. Enables these commonly used commands: Add-Migration Drop-Database Get-DbContext Get-Migration Remove-Migration Scaffold-DbContext Script-Migration Update-Database
95
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools
Entity Framework Core Tools for the NuGet Package Manager Console in Visual Studio. Enables these commonly used commands: Add-Migration Drop-Database Get-DbContext Get-Migration Remove-Migration Scaffold-DbContext Script-Migration Update-Database
96
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools
Entity Framework Core Tools for the NuGet Package Manager Console in Visual Studio. Enables these commonly used commands: Add-Migration Drop-Database Get-DbContext Get-Migration Remove-Migration Scaffold-DbContext Script-Migration Update-Database
99
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools
Entity Framework Core Tools for the NuGet Package Manager Console in Visual Studio. Enables these commonly used commands: Add-Migration Drop-Database Get-DbContext Scaffold-DbContext Script-Migrations Update-Database
93
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools
Entity Framework Core Tools for the NuGet Package Manager Console in Visual Studio. Enables these commonly used commands: Add-Migration Drop-Database Get-DbContext Scaffold-DbContext Script-Migrations Update-Database
95
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools
Entity Framework Core Tools for the NuGet Package Manager Console in Visual Studio. Enables these commonly used commands: Add-Migration Drop-Database Get-DbContext Scaffold-DbContext Script-Migrations Update-Database
98

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