How to create custom scaffold templates in ASP.NET MVC5?

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First, it looks like you have Visual Studio 2013 and 2012 both installed on your computer. I tried looking up the path you provided, I couldn’t find it. On your path it looks like you’re trying to use MVC4 templates. Here is my path:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\
Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\Web\Mvc\Scaffolding\Templates

Below is how I customized my scaffold template for the BaseController:

  1. Create folder called “CodeTemplates” directly in the project folder.

  2. Go to below path, find MvcControllerWithActions folder copy all to folder “CodeTemplates”

    C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\
Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\Web\Mvc\Scaffolding\Templates

  3. Go to CodeTemplates -> MvcControllerWithActions in your project.

  4. There are two files, Controller.cs.t4 and Controller.vb.t4 in MvcControllerWithActions, if you used C#, you can delete Controller.vb.t4.

  5. Open the Controller.cs.t4 file, modify the Controller name to BaseController, like below:

    public class <#= ControllerName #> : BaseController
{
}

  6. Now, when you try to create MVC5 Controller using “add new scaffold item”, it’ll use the template you customized.

Hope it helps.

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