如何在实体框架中进行迁移？

Question

My research keeps telling me to use the Migrate.exe , which has not shown up in my project, and it cannot be downloaded anywhere. I am also using VS Code and not Visual Studio, which seems to make it impossible to use the Package Manager Console.

And I am using Entity Framework - not Entity Framework Core - so I do not have all the options of EFC.

Currently I am trying to set Entity Framework up in Unity, the game engine. It was possible to set up a temporary project with Entity Framework v6.2.0 and run dotnet pack to get the EntityFramework.dll but it does not create the Migrate.exe . And it seems to be the only option for creating migrations.

Do any of you know how to get the Migrate.exe file or another way to add migrations?

Answer 1

When you install Entity Framework using NuGet migrate.exe will be inside the tools folder of the downloaded package. In \packages\EntityFramework.\tools

Source is microsoft

have you tried this?

Answer 2

Apparently there is a difference in installing and adding, not that they mention that when you look at the package on nuget.org.

So rather than running dotnet add package EntityFramework --version 6.2.0 I needed to download the latest nuget.exe from nuget.org and create a packages.config file in the root folder.

I then ran nuget.exe install packages.config -OutputDirectory packages which installed all the files I needed.

packages.config:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<packages>
  <package id="EntityFramework" version="6.2.0" targetFramework="net40" />
</packages>