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Bastien Vandamme
Bastien Vandamme

Reputation: 18465

Creating a new controller class in Visual Studio with MVC?

When I create a new controller in Visual Studio with MVC It generate automatically the following code :

public class Default1Controller : Controller
{
    //
    // GET: /Default1/

    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        return View();
    }

}

My Default1Controller inherit from Controller but I work with a BaseController class and I always have to remember to change the inheritance. Is it possible to Is it possible to modify or create a new template to automatically generate a more specific code for my project?

public class Default1Controller : BaseController
{
    //
    // GET: /Default1/

    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        return View();
    }

}

Thank you,

Upvotes: 6

Views: 3058

Answers (4)

Yusubov
Yusubov

Reputation: 5843

You need to override the T4 template and may also use scaffolding for productivity. Here us more info : MvcScaffolding: Overriding the T4 Templates

Upvotes: 1

dan radu
dan radu

Reputation: 2782

You should be able to modify the controller T4 templates located in a folder like this:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\CSharp\Web\MVC 3\CodeTemplates\AddController

Simply change the line 

public class <#= mvcHost.ControllerName #> : Controller

to

public class <#= mvcHost.ControllerName #> : BaseController

Also, the links provided by Asif are useful.

Upvotes: 3

Ando
Ando

Reputation: 11409

You have to modify the T4 template that's at the basis of the "Add controller" command.

Go to \Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\CSharp\Web\MVC 3\CodeTemplates\AddController\ (replace with your version of VS and MCV) and modify the Controller.tt

The line public class <#= mvcHost.ControllerName #> : Controller should become public class <#= mvcHost.ControllerName #> : BaseController

More details can be found on Scott Hanselman's blog

Upvotes: 4

Asif Mushtaq
Asif Mushtaq

Reputation: 13150

You need custom code generation in MVC.

The following link might be helpful.

Modifying the default code generation/scaffolding templates in ASP.NET MVC

and also

ASP.NET MVC and T4 and NerdDinner

Upvotes: 5

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