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

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 … Read more

MVC4 Scaffolding Add Controller gives error “Unable to retrieve metadata…”

By trial and error I found the line of code (it’s the DbContext ctor) that is causing the error: public class MyThingDb : DbContext { // If I comment this constructor out the scaffolding works public MyThingDb() : base(“DefaultConnection”) { } public DbSet<MyThing> Things{ get; set; } } WTF?