EFCoreTerminalUI 1.1.0

EF Core Terminal UI (efui)

An interactive terminal UI for Entity Framework Core migrations. Pick your projects and migrations with the arrow keys to add, remove or apply migrations — no more typing long dotnet ef commands with --project and --startup-project flags.

── EF Core Terminal UI ──────────────────────────────────────────────
Migration   Infrastructure/Infrastructure.csproj
Startup     WebApi/WebApi.csproj
DbContext   Infrastructure.AppDbContext
Database    connected

╭────┬─────────────────────────────────────┬──────────────╮
│ #  │ Migration                           │ Status       │
├────┼─────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────┤
│ 1  │ 20261023055621_Init                 │ ✔ applied    │
│ 2  │ 20261023055653_AddPrice  ◀ latest   │ ● pending    │
╰────┴─────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────╯

What do you want to do? (↑/↓ and Enter)
> + Add Migration
  - Remove Last Migration
  ↑ Update Database (latest migration)
  → Update Database (pick migration / revert)
  # Generate SQL Script
  ...

Features

• Arrow-key menus for every operation — nothing to memorize.
• Built for layered solutions: scans the folder for .csproj files and suggests the migration project (where your DbContext and Migrations folder live) and the startup project (Web / Exe).
• Remembers your setup: project and DbContext selections are saved to .efui.json, so the next run goes straight to the menu.
• Migration status at a glance: applied (✔) and pending (●) migrations, with the latest one highlighted. Falls back to an offline list when the database is unreachable.
• Safe remove: if the last migration is already applied, efui offers to revert it from the database before removing it.
• Revert to any point: update the database to any migration, or back to 0.
• Live, colorized output from dotnet ef.
• Multilingual UI: English, Türkçe, Deutsch, Español and Français.

Installation

dotnet tool install --global EFCoreTerminalUI

Update to the latest version:

dotnet tool update --global EFCoreTerminalUI

Usage

Run it from your solution folder:

efui              # current folder
efui ../MyProject # another folder

1. On first run, pick the migration project (e.g. Infrastructure) and the startup project (e.g. WebApi). The most likely candidates are listed first.
2. If there is more than one DbContext, pick one from the list.
3. Your choices are saved to .efui.json. Use Settings → Change project / DbContext to change them later.

Menu

Language

On first run efui asks for your language, with your system language suggested first. You can change it any time from Settings → Language.

The language is a per-user preference stored in ~/.efui/config.json, so it applies to every project.

Configuration files

Tip: .efui.json holds local paths for your machine — you may want to add it to your project's .gitignore.

Requirements

• .NET 9 SDK or later
• dotnet-ef — efui offers to install it if it is missing
• Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design referenced by the startup project

Building from source

git clone https://github.com/alican645/EntityFrameworkUI.git
cd EntityFrameworkUI/EFCoreTerminalUI
dotnet pack -c Release
dotnet tool install --global --add-source ./nupkg EFCoreTerminalUI

Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome — including new translations: add a Strings instance in EFCoreTerminalUI/Localization/Translations.cs and register it in L.Languages. Any text you leave out falls back to English.

Development happens on the dev branch; merging into main with a bumped <Version> publishes a new release to NuGet automatically.

License

MIT. This is a community tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft.