Web forms pages using entity framework in VS 2017

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Is it possible to create scaffolding for Web Forms Pages using Entity Framework in Visual Studio 2017? The option is not there.

When one created a Webforms project and goes to Application -> Add -> New Scaffolded Item, one sees the following on the left hand side:

Installed
MVC
Web API

However in Visual Studio 2013, I did an app some years back, the scaffolding has a Webforms option.

Application -> Add -> New Scaffolded Item

And then:

Installed
MVC
Web API
Web Forms

On Clicking on Webforms, one sees the option of "Web Forms Using Entity Framework".

How do I enable this option in VS 2017?

What I have tried:

I have searched the web for solving this issue in VS 2017 but to no avail.

Posted 28-Aug-19 1:55am

Kinyanjui Kamau

Updated 28-Aug-19 23:50pm

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[no name] 28-Aug-19 8:44am

Don't see how one relates to the other. If the "admin" functions use EF or not, makes no difference to your existing or planned EF "app" code; good or bad. I see no point in spending time on this.

Kinyanjui Kamau 28-Aug-19 9:35am

I don't really get you. I meant scaffolding in webforms as a feature in 2013 that created the CRUD functions on a click. Yes I could code that in 2017.

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dnxit · Answer 1 · 2019-08-28T23:51:00

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There is no option in VS 2017 for Web forms Scaffolding, there was an Extension

Web Forms Scaffolding - Visual Studio Marketplace[^]

but it seems they've not updated it for VS 15/17/19

Posted 28-Aug-19 23:51pm

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Kinyanjui Kamau 29-Aug-19 6:00am

So it seems. Thanks anyway. Will just code it all. Won't make much difference.

dnxit 29-Aug-19 6:13am

basically it uses Dynamic Data Entity templates and Field templates, for more details see
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/aspnet/cc488545(v=vs.100)