

The following example scaffolds entity types and a DbContext from the Chinook database located on the machine's SQL Server LocalDB instance, making use of the database provider.ĭotnet ef dbcontext scaffold "Name=ConnectionStrings:Chinook" For example, PowerShell requires you to escape the $ character, but not \. How you quote and escape the connection string depends on which shell you are using to execute the command refer to your shell's documentation for more information. The tools will use this connection string to read the database schema. The first argument to the command is a connection string to the database. NET CLI commands have two required arguments: the connection string to the database, and the EF Core database provider to use.
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Install the NuGet package for the database provider that targets the database schema you want to scaffold from.īoth the PMC and the.Install the NuGet package for in the project you are scaffolding to.NET CLI tools, which across all platforms supported by. Before scaffolding, you'll need to install either the PMC tools, which work on Visual Studio only, or the.These tools provide a graphical tool which builds on top of the EF Core command line tools and offers additional workflow and customization options. If you use Visual Studio, try out the EF Core Power Tools community extension.
