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Preface: Abp suite is known as a tool to generate Code first; however, we also want to aply this tool for Database first, so what should we do?

Use for Oracle database.

Download source: https://github.com/ngotruongblog/Generator

Step 0: Download source

Download source at : https://github.com/ngotruongblog/Generator

Step 1: Install EF Core Power Tool for visual studio

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Step 2: Right-click in Generater project, choose Reverse Engineer

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Step 3: Click the Add Connection icon in Server Explorer

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Choose Database Connection -> Choose table/view to generate

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Step 4: Install oracle.entityframeworkcore nuget and delete DataContext.cs file

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Step 5: Create file json

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In which,

  1. _nameSpaceModels: namespace name of prior created entity image 
  2. _pathOutput: where contains the json files
  3. _nameProject: module name

Step 6: Copy json files into .suite\entities\ folder in the Abp project

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Then, refresh Abp Suite tool and generate code. image 

Step 7: After generating code from Abp Suite, we need to edit xxxDbContextModelCreatingExtensions.cs so that the colume name could be fit with database

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