View scaffold templates in ASP.NET Core

Question

MVC 5 has the very handy feature when creating a view to be able to select a template for scaffolding out the view. This uses a T4 template file to generate a CSHTML file b

Answer 1

Add following line in project.json under dependencies.

"Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGenerators.Mvc": "1.0.0-preview2-final",
"Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Tools": "1.0.0-preview2-final"

Also, add following under tools

"Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Tools": "1.0.0-preview2-final"

Save the file and it should restore the packages, restart Visual Studio if necessary.

Now when you right click, you should see 'New Scaffolded Item...' option under 'Add'