EDMX Metadata Generator options for .NET Core

[robertmclaws]

Per the announcement post, EF 6.3 Preview 5 is currently shipping without EDMX support. Fortunately, I solved that problem about a year ago for SDK-style projects targeting the .NET Framework. I've open-sourced that tool here: https://github.com/CloudNimble/EF6.3MetadataGenerator.

Elements of this tool could be turned into a .NET Core Global Tool using dotnet-script and csx files (or possibly another option), but the code would have to be changed to manipulate the Project XML manually.

According to this tweet, the team is considering a couple different options. I thought this thread would be a good place to discuss those options, and consider if the tool I linked to would be useful in the final product.

[bricelam]

My initial thought was just to port and package Microsoft.Data.Entity.targets and Microsoft.Data.Entity.Build.Tasks.dll as part of EntityFramework. It feels like a good candidate for NuGet's buildTransitive directory.

[bricelam]

I've got this working on an internal branch using the approach I described. We're just waiting for approval to open source Microsoft.Data.Entity.Build.Tasks.dll...

[GuyBenhaim]

Hello,
Was there a conclusion on this? in 6.3 Preview 7?
Thx

[ajcvickers]

@GuyBenhaim The fix was included in preview 7.