Where are Entity Framework Tools in EF6 and Visual Studio 2017?

c#, entity-framework, visual-studio-2017

Solution

For anyone looking at this, in my case the answer was that I was using a Code-First implementation of the Entity Framework, which apparently does NOT give you access to the Visual Tools.

So there is no EDMX file in Code-First Entity Framework.

Problem

I'm using Visual Studio 2017 and Entity Framework 6, and for the life of me, I cannot find the EDMX file, Entity Data Tools, Model Browser, or Entity Designer... Am I losing my mind here? I've created multiple new projects trying to find these UI-based tools for working with the Entity Framework data models and can't seem to get anywhere. Please help! I believe I have the correct tools installed in the VS2017 Install:

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