I have heard talk of tooling to reverse-engineer a database, but I have no idea of its status.

Again... EF is OpenSource so someone should be able to build this tooling if Microsoft doesn't.

>If you already have the Database designed, how you're supposed to proceed?
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>In our current application we use Code First by using Reverse POCO generator by Simon Hudges https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/ee4fcff9-0c4c-4179-afd9-7a2fb90f5838
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>Is it what MS has in mind when starting a new project? Or all developers are supposed to always start from modeling objects first?
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>Thanks.