Entity Framework Tools for Visual Studio 2015

Entity Framework Tools for Visual Studio 2015, developed by Microsoft Corporation, provides integrated design-time support for building data access layers with Entity Framework 6 in Visual Studio 2015. The tools streamline common tasks through visual designers and guided wizards, helping you create models, generate context and entity classes, and keep your database and model in sync—whether you use Database First, Model First, or Code First from an existing database.

Key capabilities:

• Visual EF Designer (EDMX): Create and edit conceptual models, relationships, and mappings.
• Database First and Model First: Reverse-engineer models from an existing database, or generate a database schema from a model.
• Code First from Database: Scaffold POCO entity classes and a DbContext from an existing schema.
• Stored procedure and function mapping: Import stored procedures, map them to entities, and generate function imports.
• Model updates and synchronization: Update models from the database and regenerate code as your schema evolves.
• Customizable code generation: Use T4 templates to produce POCO entities and DbContext-based code.
• Integration with Visual Studio: Access tooling via Add New Item and context-sensitive designers; use Package Manager Console commands for Code First Migrations.

This tooling targets Entity Framework 6 on the .NET Framework and is intended for Windows desktop, web, and service applications built in Visual Studio 2015. It is not designed for Entity Framework Core or .NET Core projects.

Entity Framework Tools for Visual Studio 2015 is developed by Microsoft and is used by 89 users of Software Informer. The most popular versions of this product among our users are: 14.0 beta and 14.0. The names of program executable files are Blend.exe, cmd.exe, devenv.exe, mfbclient.exe and msvsmon.exe.

You can check Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 4, Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition, Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable (x86) - and other related programs like Entity Developer at the "download" section.