installed code generators for MVC and Web API projects. You add scaffolding to your project when you want to quickly add code that interacts with data models. Using scaffolding can reduce the amount of time to develop standard data operations in your project.
Prerequisites
To use ASP.NET Scaffolding, you must have,
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2013
- Web Developer Tools (part of default Visual Studio 2013 installation)
- ASP.NET Web Frameworks and Tools 2013 (part of default Visual Studio 2013 installation)
What are the Advantages of using Scaffolding ?
- Minimal or no code to create a data-driven Web applications.
- Quick development time.
- Pages that are fully functional and include display, insert, edit, delete, sorting, and paging functionalities.
- Built-in data validation that is based on the database schema.
- Filters that are created for each foreign key or Boolean fields.
