EF Poco Generate for specific table

Question

It is possible to generate a POCO class for one selected table in entity framework.

There are few tools that does that, but it does generate for all the table,

The primary reason i am asking this is to generate a POCO class for a single table, and add attributes to it manually, and the all i need to do is to attach it to DbContext as a property :).

As for example using Package-manager, they way it is done to add migration

generate-poco TableName FileName.cs

Answer 1

You can use the ADO.Net wizard to generate the POCO classes for you from the database. The wizard will generate one partial class per table with properties that match your field names. Here is what I've done in the past when I wanted to add a new large table to an existing code first context.

1. Add->New Item -> ADO.Net Entity Data Model
2. Move the generated POCO classes to some other folder (and edit the namespace)
3. Delete the rest of the extra stuff (I.e the .edmx file and generated context)
4. Add the DBSet to 'your' DBContext

If you are using EF migrations

5. add-migration
6. update-database