Showing posts with label Entity Framework Core. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Entity Framework Core. Show all posts

7.17.2018

Updating your EF models using Database First approach

In the .Net Core world, updating your Entity Framework Core models from a Database First approach is not very obvious. It certainly wasn't obvious to me. In the not so distant past, the process of adding or updating a table involved dragging or selecting the objects onto a convenient little canvas. This is still available, I believe, in Entity Framework non core versions. 

I find myself having to copy and paste this in to the Package Manager Console so often that I needed to put this somewhere easily retrievable - so here it is.
Scaffold-DbContext "Data Source=Blah;Initial Catalog=DataBase;Trusted_Connection=True;" Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer -force -OutputDir Models/DB