Entity Framework Core 2.0 add-migration not generating anything

Question

I\'m new to EF and am trying to create a simple test solution using VS 2017, .NET Core 2.0 and EF 2.0 but I can\'t get add-migration to create the migrations folder

Answer 1

@JulieLerman provided the answer when I asked in her pluralsight course discussion. There is apparently an issue with attempting this with the .NET Core class libraries. The successful workaround is to put the following in the csproj file of the DBContext project:

  true 

She wrote a blog about it: http://thedatafarm.com/data-access/the-secret-to-running-ef-core-2-0-migrations-from-a-net-core-or-net-standard-class-library/

Additionally, be sure to set the project with the DBContext in it as the startup project