Packages to be installed for running this project dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer and install the below in startup project in case of multiple projects in a solution dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design extra commands for adding and executing migarations dotnet tool install --global dotnet-ef dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design dotnet ef migrations add InitialCreate dotnet ef database update dotnet ef dbcontext scaffold "Server=.\sqlexpress;Database=SportsEventManagement;TrustServerCertificate=Yes;Trusted_Connection=True;" Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer -o Models