EF Core Sidekick: Using this extension for auto code generation

Introduction

EF Core Sidekick is a Visual Studio extension that enhances the power of auto code generation in Visual Studio. It provides a set of tools and templates for generating EF Core entities and derived DbContext from existing database, and then generating services and APIs from the entities.

What can you do with EF Core Sidekick

Generate entities from an existing database

Automatically generates entities based on the tables and views in the existing database. While selecting tables, it is possible to enable or disable selection of associated tables and references. When generating entities, table inheritance relationship mappings (such as TPT) are supported. The class names, property names and code generation paths are customizable.

Scaffold services and APIs from an entity

Scaffolds basic CRUD services and APIs based on entities auto-generated using this extension (EF Core Sidekick), entities generated using a third-party extension, or entities manually created. The newly generated APIs can quickly apply the existing authentication and authorization system. And sensitive data (such as passwords) can be auto-processed (hidden) in the APIs to ensure the data transmission security.

Scaffold APIs

Scaffolds APIs based on existing interfaces or services. The newly generated APIs can quickly apply the existing authentication and authorization system. And sensitive data (such as passwords) can be auto-processed (hidden) in the APIs to ensure the data transmission security.

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DevMagic Studio is a comprehensive suite of visual designers that help you simplify the creation of the enums, entities, data filters, services & APIs. Instead of paying attention to the syntax details you can now just focus on the real business.

Designers for entities - Support standard, owned entity & entity inherence; Support entities relationships design; Configure data validation without writing LINQs

Designers for Filters - Configure the filters without writing the LINQs; Configure multiple filters for each entity; Configure simple or complex filters.

Designer for Services & APIs - Configure the services and APIs for each entity; Configure the sorting rule for database and output data; Add services with customized Filters; Easy to create new or inherit from an existing service.

Code Customization - Add customized code snippets and enable easy integration with existing authorization framework.