The term 'scaffold-dbcontext' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program

Question

When trying to scaffold with asp.net core this command

scaffold-dbcontext \"Data Source=(local);Initial Catalog=MyDb;Integrated Security=True;\" M

Answer 1

For me... when copy pasting the command from the microsoft docs, for some reason extra spacing was added around the hyphens.

Removing the hyphens fixed it:

wrong:

Scaffold - DbContext "Server=(localdb)\mssqllocaldb;Database=myDbName;Trusted_Connection=True;" Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer - OutputDir Models

good:

Scaffold-DbContext "Server=(localdb)\mssqllocaldb;Database=myDbName;Trusted_Connection=True;" Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer -OutputDir Models

The docs also say if you receive this error, try restarting Visual Studio.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/get-started/aspnetcore/existing-db