Entity Framework Guides & Tutorials
Practical, hands-on guides to reverse engineering your database into Entity Framework - from
database-first basics to generating clean, customisable POCO classes, a DbContext and mappings.
How It Works: Database to Entity Framework Code in Three Dialogs
A walkthrough of the generator itself: connect to your database, tick the tables, views and stored
procedures you want, adjust any setting, then see the POCO classes, DbContext,
configuration and stored procedure code it produces.
How to Reverse Engineer a SQL Server Database into Entity Framework Core
A step-by-step guide to database-first development in EF Core: what reverse engineering means,
using Scaffold-DbContext, its limitations, and how to generate cleaner, fully
customisable code with the EntityFramework Reverse POCO Generator.
How to Scaffold Specific Tables in EF Core for a Faster DbContext
Why a large DbContext is slow to start (a real 500-table vs 4-table benchmark), and
how to scaffold only the tables you need - filtering tables, views and columns to generate a lean,
fast context per microservice.
How to Call SQL Server Stored Procedures in Entity Framework Core
Why Scaffold-DbContext ignores stored procedures and where the built-in
FromSqlRaw APIs stop - and how to generate strongly-typed stored procedure methods and
result classes automatically.
How to Unit Test Entity Framework Core Without a Database
Why mocking a DbContext and the EF Core InMemory provider fall short, and how a
generated FakeDbContext gives you fast, dependency-free unit tests with no mocking.