Install Entity Framework Power Tools, 2015 entity on Visual Studio 2015

Install Entity Framework Power Tools, 2015 entity on Visual Studio 2015

Entity Framework Power Tools is a very useful EF Code First plug-in. It allows you to easily generate model and dbcontext code that matches the database structure.
This section describes how to switch the old project to Entity Framework Code First.

Visual Studio 2015 does not have an appropriate Entity Framework Power Tools version in the extension.

On the Visual Studio Gallery site, you will find that it does not support VS2015

The solution is also very simple. First download the expanded installation package and you will get an installation package with the vsix suffix. This installation package is essentially a zip package. Modify the extension of the file to. Zip, decompress the file, and you can see that the installation package actually contains the following files:

Open and edit the extension. vsixmanifest file, and add the yellow part in the file to support VS2015.

Finally, compress these files and modify the extension of the compressed package to vsix. A plug-in that supports VS2015 can be changed. Enjoy it!