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Install EF packages

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Install EF packages

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- [Narrator] We're now ready to install Entity Framework. So let's go ahead and open up the Package Manager Console. I'll type in "package", and we'll type in like we did before. "Install-Package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer". "Install-Package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer". That's the first thing we want to install. The packages restore, and everything looks good. Now to enable reverse engineering from an existing database, which is going to be our active database, we're going to need to install a couple of other packages too. So I'll hit the up arrow to enter in to my last command, and I'm going to modify it so that it says "Tools", and it's in pre-release so I'll add "-pre". And I'll run that, that looks good. It's restoring the packages. The next one will be "EntityFrameworkCore.Design". We'll install that. Let that restore. Next will be "SqlServer.Design", and there we go, right there with that IntelliSense. I really like that IntelliSense. It makes life a…

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