Creating CRUD (Create/Read/Update/Delete) operations manually would take quite a long time. It's a repetitive operation that could be automated. The process of automating this CRUD operation is referred to as scaffolding:
- Right-click on the Controllers folder and select Add | New Scaffolded Item.
- A dialog box will be shown to Add MVC Dependencies.
- Select Minimal Dependencies from the dialog box. Visual Studio adds the NuGet packages required to scaffold the MVC Controller and includes the Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design and the Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer.Design packages. It also includes ScaffoldingReadme.txt, which is not required. We could just delete it.
Once the minimal setup is completed, we need to ...
