Entity Framework Power Tools Discover About this Extensions

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 representing the underlying Code-First model.
• View Entity Data Model DDL SQL: It displays the DDL SQL corresponding to the SSDL in the underlying EDM Model.
• Generate Views: It generates pre-compiled views used by the EF runtime to improve start-up performance. Adds the generated views file to the containing project.

When right-clicking on an Entity Data Model .edmx file, you will see only Generate Views context.

• Generate Views