Document ef.exe

[bricelam]

It lives in both the Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools and Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools.DotNet package. There are three versions of it:

Assembly	Notes
tools/net451/ef.exe	For .NETFramework and UAP
tools/net451/ef.x86.exe	Same as above but for x86 assemblies on an x64 OS
tools/netcoreapp1.0/ef.dll	For .NETCoreApp and .NETStandard

To run on .NET Core, use the following. (This is shown in the the verbose output on PMC and dotnet ef.)

dotnet exec --depsfile MyApp.deps.json --runtimeconfig MyApp.runtimeconfig.json ef.dll ...

[bricelam]

@ajcvickers was testing this on an x86 OS and found that ef.exe didn't work and he needed to use ef.x86.exe instead.

[bricelam]

Got to the bottom of it. It's not AnyCPU as it's expected to be. Filed dotnet/efcore#7401

[rowanmiller]

Consolidating with #204

[bricelam]

Reopening since I'm closing #204 without this.