Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design 8.0.21

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See the version list below for details.
dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design --version 8.0.21
                    
NuGet\Install-Package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design -Version 8.0.21
                    
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.Design" Version="8.0.21">
  <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.Design" Version="8.0.21" />
                    
Directory.Packages.props
<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design">
  <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.Design --version 8.0.21
                    
#r "nuget: Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design, 8.0.21"
                    
#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.
#:package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design@8.0.21
                    
#:package directive can be used in C# file-based apps starting in .NET 10 preview 4. Copy this into a .cs file before any lines of code to reference the package.
#addin nuget:?package=Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design&version=8.0.21
                    
Install as a Cake Addin
#tool nuget:?package=Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design&version=8.0.21
                    
Install 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.

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.

Product Compatible and additional computed target framework versions.
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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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Code Generators for ASP.NET Core MVC. Contains code generators for MVC Controllers and Views.

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Design

Code Generation tool for ASP.NET Core. Contains the dotnet-aspnet-codegenerator command used for generating controllers and views.

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration

Contains the CodeGenCommand that finds the appropriate code generator and invokes it from project dependencies.

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Contains Entity Framework Core Services used by ASP.NET Core Code Generators.

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