JetBrains/rider-efcore

Entity Framework Core UI plugin for JetBrains Rider

This plugin introduces Entity Framework Core commands' UI inside JetBrains Rider.

Features

There are a couple of UI stuff for:

• Creating migrations
• Updating database with selected migration (including migration names autocompletion)
• DbContext scaffolding from existing database
• Creating SQL scripts from the migration range
• Removing last created migration
• Suggesting installing dotnet ef command line tools if not installed (when opening solution that contains EF Core related projects)
• Previewing commands before execution
• Persisting selected common preferences between dialogs

How to install

Starting from Rider 2023.3, the plugin will be bundled into main Rider distribution. No additional actions will be required.

Using marketplace

1. Go to Settings / Plugins / Marketplace
2. Search for "Entity Framework Core UI"
3. Click Install, then Save
4. After saving restart Rider

Using .zip file

1. Go to Releases
2. Download the latest release of plugin for your edition of JetBrains Rider (Stable or EAP)
3. Proceed to Settings / Plugins / ⚙ / Install plugin from disk
4. Click Save
5. After saving restart Rider

How to use

1. Open solution that contains EF Core related projects (migrations and startup projects)

2. Navigate to Tools/Entity Framework Core under project context menu:

   

   You could use context menu of either your migrations or startup project.

3. Clicking action will show appropriate dialog:

   

4. After you press Ok, selected action will be executed in console-like window (by default):

   

5. You could also configure dialog's behavior in Settings, under Tools/EF Core UI section:

   

More about features and available dialogs you could read in the blog post.

Requirements

TL;DR:

• the most recent stable version of JetBrains Rider,
• officially supported versions of .NET, EF Core tools and EF Core NuGets.

Before opening the issue, please make sure that your projects and development environment completely satisfies these requirements:

• IDE

  • JetBrains Rider 2023.1+ or latest EAP

• Target frameworks

  • net8.0 (preview)
  • net7.0
  • net6.0
  • net5.0
  • netcoreapp3.1
  • netstandard2.1 *
  • netstandard2.0 *

  *: only for Migrations projects

• Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.*: 5.0.0 or higher

• Tools (dotnet ef): 5.0 or higher

Development

Note: You should have JDK 17 and .NET SDK 7.0+ installed and configured.

Preparing

./gradlew rdgen - generates RD protocol data for plugin internal communication

Building plugin parts

./gradlew buildPlugin

It will build both frontend and backend parts.

Running

Next command will start instance of JetBrains Rider with plugin attached to it:

./gradlew runIde

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! 🎉

It's better to create an issue with description of your bug/feature before creating pull requests.

About branching

This project uses customized git strategy.

Each release/* branch plays main development branch role for specific release.

For example, release/222 means that branch is related to 222.* release cycle for 2022.2 Rider version.

See also

• Entity Framework Core inside Rider: UI Way (recommended tutorial)
• Marketplace page
• Changelog