June, 2011

Released soon after Entity Framework 4.1, EF Power Tools CTP1 is intended to provide design-time support for the development that involves the use of the Entity Framework Code-First approach. EF Power Tools CTP1 can be downloaded from Visual Studio Gallery. Further in the article, you will find an explanation on how to use Entity Framework Power Tools with Devart dotConnect providers for Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite, as well as information on Entity Developer that can be used as an alternative to Entity Framework Power Tools.

This article deals with the following:

• Use of Existing DbContext
  • Connection String
  • Using DefaultConnectionFactory
  • Instance of Provider-Specific Connection
• Generation of Code-First Model from Existing Database

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