Entity Framework is not for everyone while it seems that for reverse engineering an existing database VB.NET takes a backseat to C# where there are Visual Studio extensions (like EF Power Tools) and T4 templates to reverse engineer databases.

So I've started a GitHub repository for teaching how to use Entity Framework Core with VB.NET in .NET Core projects. Currently just writing code but will have an article out by the end of December.

The article will have walkthroughs on how to created necessary classes for basic operations one would expect in an application with focus more on the backend rather than the frontend. Also using appsettings.json with a generic reader.

If interested here is the repository.

Requires Visual Studio 2019 and SQL-Server (Express edition is fine). To run the code, clone the repository, perform a NuGet restore packages and run the SQL script to create a modified version of Microsoft NorthWind database.