Design Meeting Notes July 23, 2015

NuGet/DNX Commands

We reviewed the Entity Framework Commands and their parameters. Here is the outcome.

NuGet	DNX
Add-Migration     [Name]     -Context     -Project     -StartupProject	dnx [project] ef migrations add     [name]     -c, --context     -s, --startupProject
Remove-Migration     -Context     -Project     -StartupProject	dnx [project] ef migrations remove     -c, --context     -s, --startupProject
Script-Migration     -From (required when -To)     -To     -Idempotent     -Context     -Project     -StartupProject	dnx [project] ef migrations script     [from] -f, --from (required when --to)     [to] -t, --to     -i, --idempotent     -o, --output     -c, --context     -s, --startupProject
Apply-Migration Update-Database     [Migration]     -Context     -Project     -StartupProject	dnx [project] ef migration apply database update     [migration]     -c, --context     -s, --startupProject
Reverse-Engineer Scaffold-DbContext     [ConnectionString]     [Provider]     -Project     -StartupProject	dnx [project] ef revEng dbcontext scaffold     [connectionString]     [provider]
Customize-ReverseEngineer Scaffold-DbContextTemplate     [Provider]     -Project     -StartupProject	dnx [project] ef revEng customize dbcontext scaffold-templates     [provider]
Use-DbContext     [Context]     -Project	(no session)
(tab expansion)	dnx [project] ef dbcontext list     -s, --startupProject
(tab expansion)	dnx [project] ef migrations list     -s, --startupProject

Here are some other, general notes we had.

• Cross-reference related commands in help
• For renamed commands, ensure errors are useful to early adopters

It was also interesting to view the DNX sub-commands as a hierarchy.

• migrations
  • list
  • add
  • remove
  • script
• dbcontext
  • list
  • scaffold
  • scaffold-templates
• database
  • update

Cross-platform coding guidelines

We reviewed and discussed how to make the EF code more sensitive to Linux and OS X. The issues discussed have now been addressed in Engineering Guidelines - Cross-platform coding.

Discussion

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