Your startup project doesn't reference Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design

Question

I have 2 projects in my solution, I have a project with Entity Framework Core installed:

And in the other ASP.NET Web API project I have these packages:

Answer 1

I got this error because Visual Studio defaulted to using entity framework core rather than old-school entityframework for .NET Framework: entity framework 6. This was my solution:

EntityFramework\Update-Database

Or reference the version explicitly:

EntityFramework6\Update-Database

Also worth checking the right project is selected in the Package Manager Console. That likes to sneak back to other projects half the time!