ryanelian / Accelist.EntityGenerator

The official Accelist Technology .NET development tool for cleanly generating Entity Framework Core C# classes from an existing SQL Server database. (Stand-alone Reverse Engineering tool and API)

Accelist.EntityGenerator

The official Accelist Technology .NET development tool for cleanly generating Entity Framework Core C# classes from an existing SQL Server database. (stand-alone Reverse Engineering tool and API)

Getting Started

• When running on Windows (WPF desktop application), have at least .NET Framework 4.5.1.

• Click here to download latest build.

Features

• Designed with love for SQL Server and C#, when developing using database-first approach.

• Most SQL server basic data types are supported:

  • String-like types: VARCHAR, CHAR, NVARCHAR, NCHAR, XML
  • Ordinal types: BIGINT, INT, SMALLINT, TINYINT, BIT
  • Decimal types: NUMERIC, DECIMAL, SMALLMONEY, MONEY
  • Floating-point types: REAL, FLOAT
  • Blob types: VARBINARY, BINARY
  • Date and time data structures: DATETIMEOFFSET, SMALLDATETIME, DATETIME, DATETIME2, TIME
  • Unique types: UNIQUEIDENTIFIER, ROWVERSION, TIMESTAMP

• Maps the type in accordance to appropriate C# data type. Provides null ? hint for nullable columns.

• Supports composite primary keys.

• Supports non-standard (non-dbo) table schema.

• Generates the Entity Framework Core DbContext class, without requiring you to install extra / unwanted packages on your project / solution!

• Save your configurations for later!

• Blazing fast and easy to use!

Not (Yet) Implemented

• Navigation and inversion relational properties. (Hint: improve your multi-join queries performance using Dapper instead!)

• Spatial data types such as: GEOMETRY, GEOGRAPHY, and HIERARCHYID, because they are not yet supported by Entity Framework Core...

• Retired data types: TEXT, NTEXT, IMAGE.

• Custom type mapping for XML to XElement, CHAR(1) to C# char.

Credits

• Tie Tieantono for developing the WPF application, and the testing console application.