.NET MVC CRUD In 5 Minutes

Read setup .NET SDK if you do not have dotnet installed. Scaffold MVC project.

dotnet new mvc -n DotNetClipboard
cd DotNetClipboard

Add NuGet packages.

# install version 8.0.12 EF core base library 
dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore --version 8.0.12

# OR
# install latest EF core base library 
dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore

# Sqlite database
dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Sqlite

# to scaffold a database
dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design

# to scaffold controller and views
dotnet add package Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Design
dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools
dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer

EF migrations and create database

# EF migrations list
dotnet ef migrations list

# remove EF migrations
dotnet ef migrations remove

# add a migration snapshot
dotnet ef migrations add dotnet-clipboard-initial-create

# create db
dotnet ef database update

Scaffold the controller and its views

# install the tool
dotnet tool install --global dotnet-aspnet-codegenerator

# scaffold a controller and views
dotnet-aspnet-codegenerator controller \
    -name ClipboardController \
    -m DotNetClipboard.Models.Clipboard \
    -dc DotNetClipboard.Data.AppDbContext \
    --relativeFolderPath Controllers \
    --useDefaultLayout \
    --referenceScriptLibraries

Run the application

dotnet run

Source code = https://github.com/oofnivek/dotnet-clipboard

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