View scaffold templates in ASP.NET Core

Question

MVC 5 has the very handy feature when creating a view to be able to select a template for scaffolding out the view. This uses a T4 template file to generate a CSHTML file based on a specified type.

Is there a way to do anything like this in ASP.Net Core 1.0?

Answer 1

You need to add references on Tools. But only for build time

in project.json, add the following to the dependencies section:

"Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Tools": {
  "version": "1.0.0-preview2-final",
  "type": "build"
},
"Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGenerators.Mvc":  {
  "version": "1.0.0-preview2-final",
  "type": "build"
}

Still in project.json, locate the tools section and add the following

"Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Tools": {
  "version": "1.0.0-preview2-final",
  "imports": [
    "portable-net45+win8"
  ]
}