The term “Add-Migration” is not recognized

Question

I\'m using this MSDN Tutorial to run in VS2015 the command PM> Add-Migration MyFirstMigration -context BloggingContext that ran yesterday successfully but to

Answer 1

I think the answer needs updating in 2017, as MS have made some (breaking) changes that is detailed here.

https://github.com/aspnet/EntityFramework/issues/7053

To summarise, you will now need a reference to EntityFrameWorkCore.Tools.DotNet in the Tools Section as below

"Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools.DotNet": "1.0.0"

I have also posted a working project.json file below in case some one runs in problems.

{
  "dependencies": {
    "Microsoft.NETCore.App": {
      "version": "1.0.1",
      "type": "platform"
    },
    "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Diagnostics": "1.0.0",
    "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.IISIntegration": "1.0.0",
    "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel": "1.0.1",
    "Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Console": "1.0.0",
    "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Razor.Tools": {
      "version": "1.0.0-preview2-final",
      "type": "build"
    },
    "Microsoft.AspNetCore.StaticFiles": "1.0.0",
    "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc": "1.0.1",
    "Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer": "1.0.1",
    "Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Json": "1.0.1",
    "Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools": {
      "version": "1.0.0-preview2-final",
      "type": "build"
    }
  },

  "tools": {
    "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.IISIntegration.Tools": "1.0.0-preview2-final",
    "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Razor.Tools": "1.0.0-preview2-final",
    "Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools": "1.0.0-preview2-final",
    "Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools.DotNet": "1.0.0"
  },

  "frameworks": {
    "netcoreapp1.0": {
      "imports": [
        "dotnet5.6",
        "portable-net45+win8"
      ]
    }
  },

  "buildOptions": {
    "emitEntryPoint": true,
    "preserveCompilationContext": true
  },

  "runtimeOptions": {
    "configProperties": {
      "System.GC.Server": true
    }
  },

  "publishOptions": {
    "include": [
      "wwwroot",
      "web.config"
    ]
  },

  "scripts": {
    "postpublish": [ "dotnet publish-iis --publish-folder %publish:OutputPath% --framework %publish:FullTargetFramework%" ]
  }
}

Answer 2

You have to know what is your Entity-Framework version. Also after that you have to check project.json and control these sections:

In Dependencies

check:

Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools": {
  "version": "1.0.0-preview2-final",
  "type": "build"
},

This section:

"version": "1.0.0-preview2-final",

is related with version of your Entity-Framework and you have to change this with that.

After that the second section of the proj.json is here, In the Tools section of JSON you have:

"Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools": "1.0.0-preview2-final",

Also this part of code is related with your Entity-Framework and last part of code in Dependencies section.

Note: After do this issues you should to close CMD and restart visual studio.

Answer 3

I had this problem in Visual Studio 2013. I reinstalled NuGet Package Manager:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=NuGetTeam.NuGetPackageManagerforVisualStudio2013

Answer 4

I had the same problem and found that it was a Visual Studio versioning problem in the Solution file.

I was targeting:

VisualStudioVersion = 14.0.25123.0

But I needed to target:

VisualStudioVersion = 14.0.25420.1

After making that change directly to the Solution file, EF Core cmdlets started working in the Package Manager Console.

Answer 5

This is what worked for me: From Visual Studio click on

Tools --> NuGet Package Manager --> Package Manager Console

Then you can run Add-Migration, for example:

Add-Migration InitialCreate

Answer 6

Ensure Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools is referenced in the dependencies section of your project.json. NuGet won't load the Package Manager Commands from the tools section. (See NuGet/Home#3023)

{
  "dependencies": {
    "Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools": {
      "version": "1.0.0-preview2-final",
      "type": "build"
    }
  }
}