Where is Reverse Engineer for Code First found in EF6

I get an exception when I try to reverse engineer a database in EF5 code first

This video shows me how to use Code First from an existing database. ...http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/jj572367...So I use nuget to install EF Power Tools and I select my project, right click and choose; Entity Framework -> Reverse Engineer Code First. I select the database as outlined, but I get the following exception when I click OK;...Sys...

Error when Reverse Engineer Code First with EF Power Tools Beta 2 and VS2012 Update 1

Looks like it is a confirmed issue with ...Entity framework and Visual Studio 2012 update 1...The link does currently contain 2 work arounds

Reverse engineering a subset of tables for Entity Framework

I found a solution which works, though it requires a couple of "extra" steps:...In the project, right click and select ...Add... > ...new Item.... Select ...Data... on the left, and ...ADO.NET Entity Data Model... from the items list....From the dialog / wizard that shows up now, you can select a DB to generate a model from, and in this case, you c...

How to create two navigation properties to one model (EF6 Code First)

try this, if you use migrations. Migrations are not smart everytime, you should interreput the code sometimes....public class Match { public Guid Id { get; set; } public Int32 TeamHomeScore { get; set; } public Int32 TeamAwayScore { get; set; } public Guid TeamHomeId { get; set; } // I want these properties to be foreign keys p...

EF6 code first add migration - where is the 'snapshot of the current code' stored?

When I add a migration for my EF6 code first project, I get this message..."The Designer Code for this migration file includes a snapshot of your current Code First model. This snapshot is used to calculate the changes to your model when you scaffold the next migration. If you make additional changes to your model that you want to include in th...

EF6 Code First - Configure One-to-One relationship with unmatched foreign keys

I'm using Code First to define the schema of an existing database. The problem I'm having is that they key names in the tables don't quite align. This works fine with one-to-many relationships because I can use the ...HasForeignKey()... method, but there does't seem to be an equivalent for one-to-one relationships. My table definitions are:...na...

Solutions with one EF6 model (db first) and one code first

I have a solution that has multiple databases. We are using EF6....We have one Project that is EF6 (code first), and one project that is EF6 DB first....var arkleModelDbFist = new Arkle.DAL.EF.ArkleEntities(); var CustomerOld= new Arkle.DAL.EF.Customer(); arkleModelDbFist.Customers.Add(CustomerOld); // Errors on this line arkleModelDbFist.SaveChang...

Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 breaks EF reverse code engineer vsix

After installing the latest Visual Studio 2015 Update 2, the EF power tools reverse code engineer option fails with the following error message....One or more errors occurred while processing template 'Entity.tt'. error : An exception was thrown while trying to compile the transformation code. The following Exception was thrown: System.ArgumentExce...

Generating MigrationHistory table in reverse engineered code first

I have reverse engineered on existing database for code first. Next i Enabled-Migrating for the context (Code based migration). When i create an initial add-migration it works fine and would apply on an empty database. But my requirement is that i need to use the same database i used for creating the models because of the data it has. ...Now the co...

Reverse engineer my models using EF Core Power tools issues

I am creating an app and deciding to use EF 6. I've only used EF Core up until now. I want to do database first and use the EF 6 power tools. However, when I download the EF 6 power tools and install it, I see an entry in Visual Studio showing EF Core Power tools. Why is that? I can't seem to install EF 6 Powertools from the NuGet Package Manage...