Entity Framework Core: DbContextOptionsBuilder does not contain a definition for 'usesqlserver' and no extension method 'usesqlserver'

Question

I am new to EF core and I\'m trying to get it to work with my ASP.NET Core project.

I get the above error in my startup.cs when trying configure the

Answer 1

For asp.net core version 2.1 make sure to add the following package to fix the problem. (At least this fix the issue using SQLite)

dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Sqlite
dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design

Here is the reference of the documentation using SQLite with entity framework core. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/get-started/netcore/new-db-sqlite