Overview
.NET Core command-line (CLI) tool to generate Entity Framework Core source files.
Install
The Entity Framework Core Generator tool is available on nuget.org via package name EntityFrameworkCore.Generator
.
To install EntityFrameworkCore.Generator, run the following command in the console
dotnet tool install --global EntityFrameworkCore.Generator
More information about NuGet package available at https://nuget.org/packages/EntityFrameworkCore.Generator
Features
- Entity Framework Core database first model generation
- Safe regeneration via region replacement
- Safe Renaming via mapping file parsing
- Optionally generate read, create and update models from entity
- Optionally generate validation and object mapper classes
Usage
To generate source code files from your database, use the generate command with your connection string.
efg generate -c <ConnectionString>