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EF Power Tools

Power Tools...Entity Framework 6 Power Tools... are very useful design-time utilities which can be used in Visual Studio....You can download and install it from ...Visual Studio Marketplace.......When right-clicking on a file containing a derived DbContext class, the following context menu functions are available:...View Entity Data Model (Read-only):... It displays a read-only view of the Code-First model in the Entity Model Designer....View Entity Data Model XML:... It displays the EDMX XML re...

EF6 - Code First from Database!

EntityFramework - Reading your database with Visual Studio 2013 Update 2...Some time ago, I made a post talking about how to ...take advantage of your existing database with EntityFramework Power Tools..., but the Power Tools model does not allow you to choose the tables or views you want to read, and sometimes this is very useful....With the release of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2, and also EntityFramework 6.1, a new option was added in the data sources. It now allows making ...reverse engineeri...

EF6 - Harnessing your Database

EntityFramework - Harnessing your Database with Power Tools...When a company decides to adopt an ORM tool (Relational Object Mapping - in our case EntityFramework), a big paradigm break begins, as you will no longer access the database directly (...Select..., ...Insert..., ...Update..., ...Delete..., etc.), and will start to work only with classes and objects. That makes development much easier and more productive since you don't have to worry about the commands that go to the database, as this ...

EF6 - Power Tools

Entity Framework Power Tools in Visual Studio 2015...If you use EF Code First a lot like me and are already in Visual Studio 2015, you must have missed EF Power Tools. Unfortunately, it has not yet been ported to this version of Visual Studio....But calm down, there is a way to install the current version in VS 2015. To do this, first, download the ...Visual Studio Galery... component. See in the image below that it does not support VS 2015:...Now comes the trick ......I don't know if you know, ...