dotnet-ef 9.0.6

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, dotnet-ef is for cross-platform command line tooling that can be used anywhere.

Usage

Install the tool package using:

dotnet tool install --global dotnet-ef

The available commands are listed in the following table.

Command Usage
dotnet ef --help Displays information about Entity Framework commands.
dotnet ef database drop Drops the database.
dotnet ef database update Updates the database to the last migration or to a specified migration
dotnet ef dbcontext info Gets information about a DbContext type.
dotnet ef dbcontext list Lists available DbContext types.
dotnet ef dbcontext optimize Generates a compiled version of the model used by the DbContext.
dotnet ef dbcontext scaffold Generates a DbContext and entity type classes for a specified database.
dotnet ef dbcontext script Generates a SQL script from the DbContext. Bypasses any migrations.
dotnet ef migrations add Adds a new migration.
dotnet ef migrations bundle Creates an executable to update the database.
dotnet ef migrations has-pending-model-changes Checks if any changes have been made to the model since the last migration.
dotnet ef migrations list Lists available migrations.
dotnet ef migrations remove Removes the last migration.
dotnet ef migrations script Generates a SQL script from the migrations.

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.

This package has no dependencies.

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9.0.6 3 7/4/2025