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Setting Up the Dotnet-Ef Tool

Understand how to install and configure the dotnet-ef command-line tool needed for managing EF Core tasks such as creating and applying migrations. This lesson guides you through checking for existing installations, uninstalling older versions, and installing the latest tool to support design-time database operations.

Let’s see a tool to do some of the work for us. The .NET CLI tool named dotnet can be extended with capabilities useful for working with EF Core. It can perform design-time tasks like creating and applying migrations from an older model to a newer model and generating code for a model from an existing database. ... ...