Visual interface for EF Core commands

In Entity Framework Core projects — projects where Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.* 5.0.0 or later is installed — JetBrains Rider helps execute dotnet EF Core commands using a visual interface. Each command has a dedicated dialog that provides fields for most arguments that are allowed, autofills most of them, and ensures that all required arguments are specified and valid.

This functionality is a visual wrapper around the dotnet ef command; therefore, first you need to make sure that the corresponding dotnet tool is installed and available.

When you open a solution with at least one EF Core project, JetBrains Rider will check whether the dotnet ef is available as a local or as global tool (dotnet ef 5.0 or later is required). If not, it will prompt you to install the latest version as a global tool.

You can also install any other version using the corresponding command, for example:

dotnet tool install --global dotnet-ef

note

Visual interface for EF Core commands in only supported for projects targeting netcoreapp3.1 and later for the Startup project, and netstandard2.1 and later for the Migrations project.

The details of specific EF Core commands are described in the dedicated topics:

• Entity Framework Core: Add Migration
• Entity Framework Core: Remove Last Migration
• Entity Framework Core: Update Database
• Entity Framework Core: Generate SQL Script
• Entity Framework Core: Drop Database
• Entity Framework Core: Scaffold DbContext

Could not execute because the specified command or file was not found.
Possible reasons for this include:
    * You misspelled a built-in dotnet command.
    * You intended to execute a .NET program, but dotnet-xyz does not exist.
    * You intended to run a global tool, but a dotnet-prefixed executable with this name could not be found on the PATH.