In Entity Framework Core DB First if you don’t want models created for certain tables you need to explicitly list the tables you do want models created for in the Scaffold-DbContext command. There is no tables to exclude parameter. If you have a large number of tables and only want to exclude a few this is tedious.
Microsoft have an issue for this on their backlog, but it doesn’t look like its going to get into EF Core 5 (November 2020) so to ease your pain you can…
Wrap the Scaffold-DbContext command with your long list of tables in a .bat file which helps with rerunnability so you don’t have to keep on specifying your table names
or a much nicer option is to
Switch from command line to UI based scaffolding using EF Core Power Tools which is a great Visual Studio extension which will allow you to just unselect the tables you don’t need when scaffolding. Thankfully it can also remember your selection for next time too.
