Missing Scaffolders ASP.Net Core

Question

Traditionally there used to be scaffolding in Visual Studio to speed up adding controllers, areas, views, etc. After I installed ASP.NET Core, I noticed that all of these are gone, and this terrible (especially when you want to add a new area, it will be a terrible pain in the neck to manually do the job).

Is there any possible way to bring them back? Why would Microsoft team make such terrible decision?

Answer 1

Is there any possible way to bring them back?

You need to add the necessary packages:

• Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Tools
• Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGenerators.Mvc

Here is an example project.json file:

{
  "dependencies": {
    "Microsoft.NETCore.App": {
      "version": "1.0.1",
      "type": "platform"
    },
    "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc": "1.0.1",
    "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting": "1.0.0",
    "Microsoft.AspNetCore.StaticFiles": "1.0.0",
    "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"
    }
  },
  "tools": {
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Tools": {
      "version": "1.0.0-preview2-final",
      "imports": [
        "portable-net45+win8"
      ]
    }
  },
  "frameworks": {
    "netcoreapp1.0": {
      "imports": [
        "dotnet5.6",
        "portable-net45+win8"
      ]
    }
  }
}

After adding those packages, you will have access to the scaffolding.

For reference, the above screenshot is from Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 with these relevant extensions:

• Microsoft .NET Core Tools
• Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Tools
• Microsoft ASP.NET Web Frameworks and Tools