VS2015 Installing EF Power Tools

Objective

Recently in the study EF think EF power Tools is more powerful, can use its features to do code first model validation, and so on, I thought in the VS2015 extension and update can find EF Power tools, results are not found, but also to download the official website, the following is the installation steps. For a reference to install VS Power tools on VS2015.

The first step

Go to the official website to download this is the link EF Power Tools

Step Two

Change the downloaded efpowertools.vsix extension to zip

Step Three

Unzip the compressed file as follows:

Fourth Step

Open the extension.vsixmanifest in the compressed file to find

Fifth Step

Copy and change its version to 14.0, as follows:

Sixth step

Re-compress the extracted files (be careful not to compress the folders) as follows:

Seventh Step

Change its compressed file name extension back to Vspowertools15.vsix, as follows:

Eighth step

Click to run the modified extension

Nineth Step

The installation interface has been initialized, and since my computer has also installed VS2013, I have detected two

Tenth step

Installation is successful, as follows

Finally, the VS2015 is turned on to detect if it has been installed, so perfect!

VS2015 Installing EF Power Tools