Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools 10.0.0-preview.4.25255.103

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This is a prerelease version of Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools.
dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools --version 10.0.0-preview.4.25255.103
                    
NuGet\Install-Package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools -Version 10.0.0-preview.4.25255.103
                    
This command is intended to be used within the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio, as it uses the NuGet module's version of Install-Package.
<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools" Version="10.0.0-preview.4.25255.103">
  <PrivateAssets>all</PrivateAssets>
  <IncludeAssets>runtime; build; native; contentfiles; analyzers</IncludeAssets>
</PackageReference>
                    
For projects that support PackageReference, copy this XML node into the project file to reference the package.
<PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools" Version="10.0.0-preview.4.25255.103" />
                    
Directory.Packages.props
<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools">
  <PrivateAssets>all</PrivateAssets>
  <IncludeAssets>runtime; build; native; contentfiles; analyzers</IncludeAssets>
</PackageReference>
                    
Project file
For projects that support Central Package Management (CPM), copy this XML node into the solution Directory.Packages.props file to version the package.
paket add Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools --version 10.0.0-preview.4.25255.103
                    
#r "nuget: Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools, 10.0.0-preview.4.25255.103"
                    
#r directive can be used in F# Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks. Copy this into the interactive tool or source code of the script to reference the package.
#addin nuget:?package=Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools&version=10.0.0-preview.4.25255.103&prerelease
                    
Install Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools as a Cake Addin
#tool nuget:?package=Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools&version=10.0.0-preview.4.25255.103&prerelease
                    
Install Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools as a Cake Tool

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.
Scaffold-DbContext Generates a DbContext and entity type classes for a specified database.
Script-DbContext Generates a SQL script from the DbContext. Bypasses any migrations.
Script-Migration Generates a SQL script from the migrations.
Update-Database Updates the database to the last migration or to a specified migration.

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.

There are no supported framework assets in this package.

Learn more about Target Frameworks and .NET Standard.

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