There are many people that have asked this question before on SO. For the last 3 hours I have sequentially tried each solution, and I get the same No executable found matching command "dotnet-ef"
each time. I'd like to understand how to run the command and have it actually execute.
But first a little background:
I am learning how to use ASP.Net Core 1.1 MVC and Entity Framework Core. It is a Microsoft tutorial that can be found here.
The completed tutorial can be downloaded from git, as instructed. Performing these steps I open the download project and follow the steps in the readme.md
file in the project root folder. It states the following:
After downloading the project, create the database by entering
dotnet ef database update
at a command-line prompt
Which I attempted. I used visual studio developer command prompt (as admin) and first change directory to the project root, where the appsettings.json and *.csproj file are located. I then typed in the following:
C:\Users\username\Downloads\Docs-master\aspnetcore\data\ef-mvc\intro\samples\cu-final>dotnet ef database update
No executable found matching command "dotnet-ef"
According to the tutorial, this should "work" as-is.
What is strange to me is that if I run the following command I get output, which indicates to me that dotnet.exe is working.
C:\Users\username\Downloads\Docs-master\aspnetcore\data\ef-mvc\intro\samples\cu-final>dotnet --version
1.0.4
I am using Windows 10 and Visual Studio 2017 CE Version 15.2. I have both the ASP.NET and web development and .Net Core cross-platform development workloads installed.
I am also using .Net Framework Version 4.6.01586.