It is possible to scaffold a view. Just use -Tables the way you would to scaffold a table, only use the name of your view. E.g., If the name of your view is ‘vw_inventory’, then run this command in the Package Manager Console (substituting your own information for "My..."):
PM> Scaffold-DbContext "Server=MyServer;Database=MyDatabase;user id=MyUserId;password=MyPassword" Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer -OutputDir Temp -Tables vw_inventory
This command will create a model file and context file in the Temp directory of your project. You can move the model file into your models directory (remember to change the namespace name). You can copy what you need from the context file and paste it into the appropriate existing context file in your project.
Note: If you want to use your view in an integration test using a local db, you'll need to create the view as part of your db setup. If you’re going to use the view in more than one test, make sure to add a check for existence of the view. In this case, since the SQL ‘Create View’ statement is required to be the only statement in the batch, you’ll need to run the create view as dynamic Sql within the existence check statement. Alternatively you could run separate ‘if exists drop view…’, then ‘create view’ statements, but if multiple tests are running concurrently, you don’t want the view to be dropped if another test is using it. Example:
void setupDb() {
...
SomeDb.Command(db => db.Database.ExecuteSqlRaw(CreateInventoryView()));
...
}
public string CreateInventoryView() => @"
IF OBJECT_ID('[dbo].[vw_inventory]') IS NULL
BEGIN EXEC('CREATE VIEW [dbo].[vw_inventory] AS
SELECT ...')
END";