Entity Framework Core Tool doesn't work from dotnet tool

Guillaume Gayot 1

Hello ! I've encoutered an issue using EntityFrameworkCoreTool 5.0.4 : When I install the nuget package and run a scafold command from the package manager console, it works fine. But when I install it as a dotnet tool using dotnet tool install dotnet-ef --version 5.0.4 and run my scafold command from the terminal using dotnet ef Scaffold-DbContext, I get a build error : error NU1202: package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools 5.0.4 isn't compatible with netcoreapp2.2 (.NETCoreApp,Version=v2.2). package Microso ft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools 5.0.4 takes : netstandard2.1 (.NETStandard,Version=v2.1) So it seems that the nugget and the dotnet tool version aren't realy the same. What can i do ? to solve this ? I want to use the dotnet CLI because I want to use another IDE than Visual Studio

Karen Payne MVP 35,441 Reputation points

2021-03-13T12:25:42.397+00:00

Have you considered not using the CLI and instead use EF Power Tools? Basic operation, right click on a project in Visual Studio and select EF Power tools menu, reverse engineer then following the prompts. Run the tool later after modifying the database and the tool remembers what was done already. EF Power tools will offer to installed EF Core NuGet packages too.
Daniel Zhang-MSFT 9,626 Reputation points

2021-03-18T08:52:11.63+00:00

Hi @Guillaume Gayot ,
I suggest you follow this document to check your CLI and some options in your Scaffold commend.
And it is better to provide some more information and your " dotnet ef Scaffold-DbContext" to reproduce the situation.
Best Regards,
Daniel Zhang

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