Install .NET 6 Entity Framework

Install the following packages from Nuget Package Manager…

Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore

Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design

Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer

Install Entity Framework..

Check to see if Entity Framework is installed

PM> dotnet ef

You will get the following if EF is not installed…

dotnet : Could not execute because the specified command or file was not found.
At line:1 char:1
+ dotnet ef
+ ~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (Could not execu... was not found.:String) [], RemoteException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NativeCommandError
 
Possible reasons for this include:
  * You misspelled a built-in dotnet command.
  * You intended to execute a .NET program, but dotnet-ef 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.

You will get the following if EF is installed…

                     _/\__       
               ---==/    \\      
         ___  ___   |.    \|\    
        | __|| __|  |  )   \\\   
        | _| | _|   \_/ |  //|\\ 
        |___||_|       /   \\\/\\

Entity Framework Core .NET Command-line Tools 6.0.4

Usage: dotnet ef [options] [command]

Options:
  --version        Show version information
  -h|--help        Show help information
  -v|--verbose     Show verbose output.
  --no-color       Don't colorize output.
  --prefix-output  Prefix output with level.

Commands:
  database    Commands to manage the database.
  dbcontext   Commands to manage DbContext types.
  migrations  Commands to manage migrations.

Use "dotnet ef [command] --help" for more information about a command.

Install Entity Framework

PM> dotnet tool install --global dotnet-ef

You can invoke the tool using the following command: dotnet-ef
Tool 'dotnet-ef' (version '6.0.4') was successfully installed.

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