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title: "Explain the concept of MVC Scaffolding?"  
description: "Explain the concept of MVC Scaffolding?"  
author: "Manish Kumar"  
published: 2017-05-11  
updated: 2020-09-18  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/23243/explain-the-concept-of-mvc-scaffolding  
category: "c#"  
tags: ["mvc4"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Explain the concept of MVC Scaffolding?

Scaffolding is a code generation framework for ASP.NET Mvc Web applications. In Visual Studio 2013 scaffolding is pre-installed code generators for MVC and Web API projects. We add scaffolding in our project when we want to quickly generate code that interacts with data models. It reduces the amount of time to develop standard data operations in your project.

**In Visual Studio scaffolding** consists page templates, entity page templates, field page templates, and filter templates. These templates are called Scaffold templates and it allow you to quickly build a functional data-driven Website.

## Answers

### Answer by Manish Kumar

Scaffolding is a code generation framework for ASP.NET Mvc Web applications. In Visual Studio 2013 scaffolding is pre-installed code generators for MVC and Web API projects. We add scaffolding in our project when we want to quickly generate code that interacts with data models. It reduces the amount of time to develop standard data operations in your project.

**In Visual Studio scaffolding** consists page templates, entity page templates, field page templates, and filter templates. These templates are called Scaffold templates and it allow you to quickly build a functional data-driven Website.


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