Reverse Engineering Quick Start

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Erik Ejlskov Jensen edited this page Jul 27, 2022 · 16 revisions

This guide walks you through the basic steps of generating a DbContext and entity classes for a SQL Server database. For detailed instructions see the wiki

Install EF Core Power Tools via the Extensions/Manage Extensions menu inside Visual Studio.
Right click a project in Solution Explorer, select EF Core Power Tools/Reverse Engineer
Connect to your existing database via the Add button (or pick an existing connection from the drop down list)

Choose database objects, you can use the top checkbox to select all objects

Choose options, or just accept the defaults

Click OK, and C# DbContext and entity classes will be generated in the current project.