Support for MySQL, Oracle and others about efcorepowertools

[jespersh]

Since "MySQL for Visual Studio" by Oracle currently doesn't support 2019 (which is one of the requirements here), give https://github.com/jespersh/mysql-for-visualstudio2019/releases/download/1.2.8/mysqlvs2019.vsix a roll. It is a repackaged version I made just for VS2019 and my limited testing shows it works. It will be removed once Oracle provides their own for 2019.

[ErikEJ]

Not at the moment, no. Command line ? (if it is an available feature in your MySql provider)

[ErikEJ]

Looks like the building blocks are present, let me know if you would be able to help test this?

https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/windows/visualstudio/
https://github.com/PomeloFoundation/Pomelo.EntityFrameworkCore.MySql

[ErikEJ]

From @AllanTee on January 18, 2018 17:42

Hi Erik,

The Pomelo thing works. At least it connected to external MySQL database and did the "Scaffold-DbContext" miracle, which I needed. Thank You very much!!!
Consider to develop MySQL support to your tool as well. :-)

[ErikEJ]

From @AllanTee on March 7, 2018 16:8

Thank you!

[ErikEJ]

From @Pangamma on March 7, 2018 19:11

I would love this to become a feature.

[ErikEJ]

@Pangamma PRs accepted 😁

[ErikEJ]

@Pangamma Which provider are you looking for?

[ErikEJ]

From @Pangamma on March 15, 2018 21:9

@ErikEJ MySQL.

[jespersh]

Will give the MySQL part a shot during the weekend. Seems like all the parts are here to make this possible.
One thing, why is Blend required for building?

I don't see a VSIX provider registration with Pomelo.EntityFrameworkCore.MySql like there is for Npgsql here: https://github.com/npgsql/npgsql/blob/master/src/VSIX/NpgsqlProviderRegistration.cs
Could this cause me some headaches?

[ErikEJ]

One thing, why is Blend required for building?

Because of the MVVM components used for the WPF forms (@Herdo ??)

don't see a VSIX provider registration with Pomelo.EntityFrameworkCore.MySql like there is for Npgsql here: https://github.com/npgsql/npgsql/blob/master/src/VSIX/NpgsqlProviderRegistration.cs
Could this cause me some headaches?

Yes, currently the tool expects a provider to be able to store connection information in Server Explorer (using DDEX) -see above - but the design time provider and the used EF Core provider do not have to match, so you should be able to use the official MySQL DDEX provider.

In other words, the DDEX provider is only used to store and provide the connection string.

Requirements:
DDEX provider + full .NET Framework ADO.NET provider.
EF Core 2.x provider that implements IDesignTimeServices

[Herdo]

One thing, why is Blend required for building?

Because of the MVVM components used for the WPF forms (@Herdo ??)

Yeah, exactly. That's the thing where the NuGet package was introduced recently, but we didn't replace that reference, yet.

[ErikEJ]

MySql support now available

[jespersh]

This was an interesting experience to make with EFCore. Thanks for your meetup talk not long ago. Wouldn't have found this project otherwise.

[ErikEJ]

Thanks, Jesper - any suggestions for what I can do to make devs better aware of this project?

[jespersh]

My thanks to you for creating this tool.
I think the word of mouth will spread the word of it best. I see it is already popular on the VS marketplace with 160k downloads.

An issue I suppose I had with this is, is that I didn't know what the end result should be.

[jespersh]

The tracked issue on Pomelo's end for using StrongNamer here is this one: PomeloFoundation/Pomelo.EntityFrameworkCore.MySql#603

[ErikEJ]

Closing, as no request for Oracle ever received, and no Oracle provider exists

[qgxcry]

@ErikEJ Oracle provider Citms.EntityFrameworkCore.Oracle， Please Support for Oracle

[ErikEJ]

@qgxcry feel free to do a PR!