C#•6mo ago

Super noob - Trying to add/create a migration in VSCode

Ok im doing this tutorial book https://s3.amazonaws.com/recaffeinate-files/LittleAspNetCoreBook.pdf page 53 "dotnet ef migrations add AddItems" this is not working returning Could not execute because the spec command or file is not found I installed Nuget, and tried to install Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools. but it has returned Install-Package : No match was fou nd for the search.... I Installed Entity Framework extension . still no luck. Any ideas what im missing .

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Angius•6mo ago

dotnet tool list --global

❯ dotnet tool list --global
Package Id                       Version       Commands
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
dotnet-ef                        8.0.0         dotnet-ef

❯ dotnet tool list --global
Package Id                       Version       Commands
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
dotnet-ef                        8.0.0         dotnet-ef

should list dotnet-ef If it does not, dotnet tool install -g dotnet-ef

❯ dotnet tool search dotnet-ef
Package ID            Latest Version      Authors               Downloads      Verified
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
dotnet-ef             8.0.0               Microsoft             35719838       x
dotnet-mgfxc          3.8.1.303           MonoGame Team         13041
dotnet-encrypt        2019.12.1           Crypteron             2094
mustate               1.0.1               SamirKharchi          741
ctyar.ef-contrib      0.1.0               Shahriyar Qulami      492
xunit-cli             0.1.16              Nate McMaster         34014

❯ dotnet tool search dotnet-ef
Package ID            Latest Version      Authors               Downloads      Verified
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
dotnet-ef             8.0.0               Microsoft             35719838       x
dotnet-mgfxc          3.8.1.303           MonoGame Team         13041
dotnet-encrypt        2019.12.1           Crypteron             2094
mustate               1.0.1               SamirKharchi          741
ctyar.ef-contrib      0.1.0               Shahriyar Qulami      492
xunit-cli             0.1.16              Nate McMaster         34014

as you can see, that's what it's listed as -g to install it globally The Install-Package is for VS 2022 package manager console Since you're using VS Code, you want dotnet CLI instead @Rettox