Beginning Entity Framework Core 5: From Novice to Professional

© Eric Vogel 2021

E. VogelBeginning Entity Framework Core 5https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6882-7_1

1. Installation

Eric Vogel¹  

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In order to use Entity Framework Core 5, you will need some tools. These tools include Visual Studio (VS) 2019 and some NuGet packages for your solution.

Install Visual Studio

The first step is getting a version of Visual Studio 2019. The Community Edition of Visual Studio 2019 for Windows can be used for all code in this book. If you are running macOS, you can also opt to install Visual Studio for Mac. I’ll be using Windows for the remainder of the book, but the steps are about the same for macOS.

You can download Visual Studio 2019 from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/ as seen in Figure ...