Entity Framework 6 Power Tools

Entity Framework 6 Power Tools is a design-time utility used in Visual Studio when working with the code-first development approach. As you know, the code-first approach does not support visual designer for the Entity Framework model. These power tools allow you to generate a designer, XML and DDL SQL for your entities.

Download and install EF 6 Power Tools for Visual Studio 2015/2017 from Visual Studio Marketplace.

After installing it, right-click on a file containing a derived DbContext class. The following context menu functions are supported:

• View Entity Data Model (Read-only) - Displays a read-only view of the Code-First model in the Entity Model Designer.
• View Entity Data Model XML - Displays the EDMX XML representing the underlying Code-First model.
• View Entity Data Model DDL SQL - Displays the DDL SQL corresponding to the SSDL in the underlying EDM Model.
• Generate Views - Generates pre-compiled views used by the EF runtime to improve start-up performance. Adds the generated views file to the containing project.

entity framework power tools menu

Click on View Entity Data Model to generate a read-only view of all your entities in the code-first approach.