Release v7

[lorcQc]

I think we're ready for release.
If desired, EFCore.VisualBasic.Templates can also be published (although the templates are written in C#..)
Thanks

[InteXX]

Thank you for all your hard work on this.

In the meantime, I can't help but be curious about the requirement that VB templates must be written in C#. Are there some T4 constructs that VB doesn't support? I looked briefly at the files, but nothing jumped out.

[lorcQc]

Hello @InteXX,

To be able to compile and run t4 templates outside Visual Studio, EF7 uses an open-source reimplementation of the T4 engine Mono.TextTemplating.

Recently the project was enhanced to support modern C# unfortunately, using csc.exe directly, which broke design-time templates written in VB. Ref

A quick solution would have been to provide here a VB reimplementation of Mono.TextTemplating.Roslyn but the necessary types are protected so not available outside the project...

There is a issue marked with "Help Wanted", if I find the time this winter I will offer my help.

[InteXX]

That looks interesting.

I'll spread the word.

[bricelam]

Sorry I'm a bit behind. I still intend to do this.

There's been a few bugs patched in the 7.0 templates for C#. We should port those fixes:

• [release/7.0] Scaffolding: Fix code for EF6 many-to-many pattern dotnet/efcore#29793
• [release/7.0] Scaffolding: Handle FK on keyless entity type dotnet/efcore#29779

[lorcQc]

Thanks a lot,
I will do that this weekend.

[bricelam]

Resolved by PR #89

Thank you @lorcQc!