Web API Scaffolding. MvcScaffolding: One-to-Many Relationships. This post is part of a series about the MvcScaffolding NuGet package: Recently I’ve been adding features at a frantic pace, the most significant of which is support for relationships between entities. This means you can quickly create Create-Read-Update-Delete (CRUD) interfaces with drop-down lists, for example to set which “category” a “product” is in, or who is the “manager” or an “employee”. Installing or Upgrading MvcScaffolding The features I describe in this post are available in MvcScaffolding 0.9.4 or later.
If you already have a previous version installed (find out by typing Get-Package into the NuGet console), you can upgrade it as follows: Update-Package MvcScaffolding After upgrading, you must restart Visual Studio, otherwise the old version will still be loaded into the VS appdomain, and bad things will happen. If you’ve never installed MvcScaffolding into your project, install it by entering the following into the NuGet Package Manager Console: Install-Package MvcScaffolding. Scaffolding Actions and Unit Tests with MvcScaffolding. This blog post is part of a series about the MvcScaffolding NuGet package: So, if you’ve read any of my previous posts about MvcScaffolding, you’ll know that you can use it for “CRUD” scenarios: i.e., making create, read, update, delete pages so that users can enter and edit data.
Scaffolding and CRUD go together so often that people get the impression that scaffolding is only about CRUD. Well, it’s not. You can do a lot more with scaffolding. In this post I’ll show you how to use MvcScaffolding to quickly add action methods to controllers (along with their views and view models), and to scaffold unit test stubs for them. “Hang on,” you might be thinking, “I can already add action methods and unit tests. I just type them into Visual Studio.” Installing or Updating MvcScaffolding First, open an ASP.NET MVC 3 project, open the Package Manager Console, and then install the MvcScaffolding package, being sure to get version 0.9.8 or later: Install-Package MvcScaffolding Scaffolding Actions. How to: Customize the Layout of an Individual Table By Using a Custom Page Template.
The topic you requested is included in another documentation set. For convenience, it's displayed below. Choose Switch to see the topic in its original location. When you use ASP.NET Dynamic Data, you can use two general approaches to define custom behavior for a table in the data model. You can customize field templates to define field-specific behavior, and you can customize page templates or entity templates to define table-specific behavior. To customize table behavior by using page templates, you create a subfolder in the DynamicData\CustomPages folder. The name of the subfolder matches the table accessor in the data-context class of the table you want to customize. The default page templates work for all tables and does not use schema-specific information. To create a custom page template. ASP.NET Dynamic Data Scaffolding and Page Templates Overview.
Scaffolding is a mechanism that takes the power and functionality of the existing ASP.NET page framework and enhances it by dynamically displaying pages based on the data model without a physical page behind the scenes. Dynamic Data uses URL routing to match and handle requests. The scaffolding mechanism infers the view and the table a user wishes to see from the URL requested. The benefit of using the routing mechanism is that the URL requested does not have to match the physical path in the application. By default, the scaffolding mechanism is turned off. Enabling the scaffolding mechanism should be done carefully because it poses a security risk because it can expose the whole data model for display, edit, insert and delete capabilities.
You can use the following approaches to enable the scaffolding mechanism: The following example shows how to enable the scaffolding mechanism for all tables in the data model while registering the data context for the AdventureWorksLT database. Walkthrough: Using MVC View Templates with Data Scaffolding. Add the ASP.NET MVC 3 Code Templates to your application with Nuget - Joe Knows ASP.NET. Before (Manual) ASP.NET MVC uses T4 templates to scaffold Views and Controllers through the Add View and Add Controller dialogs.
A lot of people probably don’t know that these templates can be customized quite easily to generate whatever markup you prefer. Really, the only pain point is finding the code templates on your machine and copying them with the expected folder structure into your project. Unfortunately, this can be a bit of a hassle because ASP.NET MVC uses a custom T4 host to scaffold views and controllers but Visual Studio associates the files with the built-in T4 host. This means that the built in T4 engine will run for each .tt file that you add to your project. It will also run again when you save the .tt files. You can manually clear this custom tool and delete all of the aspx/cshtml files the built-in host generates and begin customizing the templates.
After (With Nuget) After installing the package you should see something similar to the screenshot below: How do I create my own Scaffold Template in ASP.NET MVC 3.