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Scaffolding controllers with repositories in Mvc5, EF6, VisualStudio 2013

In vs2012 I used to use Steve Sanderson's mvcScaffolding ...Package... with this package I could scaffold Action Methods with unit tests and controllers with repositories and dependency injection. My question is simple. Is there a way to do so in vs2013? ...

Application can't scaffold items

I created an MVC 5 application in VS 2013 Professional and then used EF 6.1 code first with an existing DB on SQL Server Express. When I try to create the views I’m using the “New scaffolded item…” then selecting the “MVC 5 controller with views...

How To Scaffold a View Model in MVC 5

I'm trying to work on a simple application. I have three SQL tables brought in through Entity Framework and had the models created automatically. I want to be able to scaffold out the Create/Details/Edit etc. views automatically in Visual Studio. I can d...

How to use referenced assembly for controller scaffolding

I have a class library with some model classes and a DbContext class (all those classes are public). This class library is referenced by an MVC-5 application. ...Is it possible to use the model classes from that referenced class library for scaffolding of...

asp.net mvc5 scaffolding Unable to retrive metadata for ...Ambiguous match found

Problem: When I want to create controller from EF codefirst context it give me this error:...There was an error running the selected code generator.Unable to retrieve metadata for Model.class name.Ambiguous match found. ...See Error Image...What I did?..

Can we Scaffold DbContext from selected tables of an existing database

As in previous versions of Entity Framework, is it possible in Entity Framework Core to reverse engineer only the selected tables of an existing database to create model classes out of them. ...This official ASP.NET site... reverse engineers the entire da...