Create the project

Creating and setting up the project

1) Change to the directory of your choice and create a project called EFGetStarted

dotnet new console -o EFGetStarted
cd EFGetStarted

2) Install dotnet ef the global CLI tool for working with entity framework tool set

Refer this link for details

3) Install entity framework core SQL Server package for the current project, the command is documented here if you need to refer to it

dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer

4) Install entity framework core design library package for the current project, we will need this later

dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design

5) verify the installations by listing the packages in the project

dotnet list package

output

Project 'EFGetStarted' has the following package references
   [net7.0]:
   Top-level Package                              Requested   Resolved
   > Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design         7.0.1       7.0.1
   > Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer      7.0.1       7.0.1

We are now good to go to the next step!