EF Core 2.0 Model does not get created

Question

I am running Scaffold-DbContext "Server=XXX;Database=XXX;User id=XXX;password=XXX" Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer -OutputDir XXX and no model is getting created. I have previously run this script on this computer, project, and database and the model has been created.

The packages that I have installed are :

Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer (2.0.1),  
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools (2.0.1), and  
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Design (2.0.1)

If I run this script on a different computer but in the same project and database it runs and completes building the model for the database.

When I run this command with -verbose it returns:

Using project 'XXX'.  
Using startup project 'XXX'.  
Build started...  
Build succeeded.

Is there a reason that this would stop working?

Answer 1

This happened because of my version of Visual Studio 17. When I upgraded to version 15.4.4 the ef models stopped being created. I had to add <RuntimeFrameworkVersion>2.0.3</RuntimeFrameworkVersion> to my <PropertyGroup></PropertyGroup> in my .csproj.

<PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.0</TargetFramework>
    <RuntimeFrameworkVersion>2.0.3</RuntimeFrameworkVersion>
  </PropertyGroup>