Why are data migrations being moved to the command line for ASP.NET 5.0?

Question

Previously you could just use the package manager console inside of VS. But now all the examples are using command line tools outside of VS. Like this:

http://docs.asp.net/projects/mvc/en/latest/tutorials/mvc-with-entity-framework.html

What is the reason for this ?

Answer 1

The NuGet commands will eventually work (see issue #978), but they need some features to be implemented by the NuGet and Web Tools teams first.