Scaffold Templates for UI for ASP.NET Core

This repository contains scaffold templates that are alternatives to the native .NET Core scaffold templates for web application with MVC and RazorPages.

Getting Started

The scaffolding logic and tools are the same as with the ordinary .NET Core web applications. The main repository and logic for the scaffolding provided by Microsoft is in this repository: https://github.com/aspnet/Scaffolding. The original template files are located here: https://github.com/aspnet/Scaffolding/tree/master/src/VS.Web.CG.Mvc/Templates.

In order to use the scaffolding provided by Microsoft you can follow these resources:

• Add a model to an ASP.NET Core MVC app
• Add a model to a Razor Pages app in ASP.NET Core

Installing the Kendo UI for ASP.NET Core Scaffold templates

Make sure that Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core is installed and set up in your project.

• Getting Started with VS 2017
• Getting Started with CLI

In order to install the scaffold templates from this repository just copy the Templates folder and include it in the root of the created project:

As of .NET Core 2.2, when using Bootstrap 3, the views folder used is ViewGenerator_Versioned\Bootstrap3\. If you are upgrading your project make sure to update the folder's name.

Make sure to exclude the folder from the project so that those files are not compiled. Or you can add the exclude statement manually in the .csproj file:

  <ItemGroup>
    <Compile Remove="Templates\**" />
    <Content Remove="Templates\**" />
    <EmbeddedResource Remove="Templates\**" />
    <None Remove="Templates\**" />
  </ItemGroup>

Next, using the build-in scaffolding utility will output cshtml generated using the custom templates included. In this case, the inputs generated will be the Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core components corresponding to the type of the field.

• String: input element with Kendo styles;
• String(multiline): textarea element with Kendo styles;
• Number: kendo-numerictextbox tag helper;
• DateTime: kendo-datetimepicker tag helper;
• Boolean: Html.Kendo().CheckBoxFor helper;

ViewGenerator/List.cshtml template, which scaffolds kendo-grid tag helper, requires Entity Framework data context to scaffold successfully. If there is no Entity, the following error will be thrown on scaffolding: "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.EntityFrameworkCore.CodeModel does not contain a definition for EntitySetName"