U.I. to create migrations bundles

[ajcvickers]

Would be nice to have a gesture in VS to create a bundle. :-)

[ajcvickers]

/cc @bricelam

[ErikEJ]

Thoughts about design? An option here, or a seperate menu item?

[ajcvickers]

@dotnet/efteam Your chance to have input on the U.I.

[ajcvickers]

Not sure mentioning the team here works. So /cc @bricelam @roji @AndriySvyryd @maumar @smitpatel @JeremyLikness

[bricelam]

How do you get a SQL script today? I'd put it next to that.

[ErikEJ]

@bricelam I only expect the user to reference .Design - but it looks like a lot of logic for this is in the ef tool, and I guess I have to duplicate all that - or am I looking in the wrong place?

[bricelam]

Hmm... You're right, most of the logic for generating and building the bundle is in ef.exe (actually a .dll on .NET 6).

You could consider shipping that dll as part of the power tools. It's included in both the EFCore.Tools and dotnet-ef NuGet packages.

Or it might be easier just to re-implement. It basically generates two files--Program.cs and efbundle.csproj--and runs dotnet publish on them.

There's also a tiny bit of logic in the PMC command to match the target framework of the startup project that might be interesting.

[ErikEJ]

Will not do this due to too much code copy and just 1 upvote