EF Core Migrations - No executable found matching command "dotnet-ef"

We are trying to generate SQL scripts for the migrations dotnet ef migrations script {...} as part of the build process but there doesn’t seem to be a way of dealing with them at the moment (other than using visual studio). I might be missing something here but both vso build agents and azure apps are unable to apply migrations so I’m wondering how to do it as part of the CI/deployment pipeline.

Thanks

[srfabio]

Visual studio 2015 Update 3 and dotnet 1.0.0-preview2-003131

Running as part of the CI build gives me this: No executable found matching command "dotnet-ef" .The offending build step is just a command line executing “dotnet ef migrations {etc}”

[rodyvansambeek]

I had the same problem. But changing the build definition to something like the following works:

- task: DotNetCoreCLI@2
  displayName: 'Generate EF Migrations script'
  inputs:
    command: custom
    custom: 'ef'
    arguments: 'migrations script --project $(project) --output $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)/SQL/$(scriptName) --context $(dbContext)  --idempotent'

It looks like the dotnet Core custom build task puts a dash between the dotnot executable and the custom command contains spaces. This seems like a bug.

Please reopen this issue.