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Yet it still ships inside Visual Studio 2026, broken and out of date. Unable to work with moderm projects or SQL providers. And [not accepting new PRs](https://github.com/dotnet/ef6tools/issues/83).
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Microsoft's (understandable but still annoying) corporate calculus is leaving developers high and dry.
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So the EDMXperts at CloudNimble have taken matters into our own hands.
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# Welcome to the EasyAF Entity Designer
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It's now refreshed with a lighter codebase, modern UI enhanced by WPF, and a bevy of new features.
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| Feature Supported | Microsoft Entity Frame | EasyAF.EntityDesigner |
The Age of AI makes it easy to keep just about anything up-to-date. We recently took the time to make some minor improvements to Microsoft's still-shipping EF6Tools codebase, and were rejected.
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The thing is, EDMX is still a very powerful language for describing a database schema. We use it to power data access and code generation in both EF6 and EFCore applications across multiple cloud providers.
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In fact, Entity Framework 6.5 rung great on modern .NET, It's a valid compatibility path to get legacy apps onto .NET 8+, and there are thousands of EDMX-based applications still being maintained.
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In fact, Entity Framework 6.5 runs **great** on modern .NET, It's a valid compatibility path to get legacy apps onto .NET 8+, and there are thousands of EDMX-based applications still being maintained.
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We don't need something new here. We just need something that works.
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# Planned Improvements
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### Features
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- Updated layout engine for cleaner diagram re-organization
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- New "Dark Mode" rendering style
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- More control over SVG outputs
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- Better integration with EasyAF tooling
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But Microsoft's corporate calculus is leaving developers high and dry.
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### Codebase
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- Continued simplification and modernization
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- Move DSL-related code to a single assembly
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- Consolidate projects that don't need to be separated
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