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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

Entity Framework Core – Package Manager Console (PMC) Commands

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.