Template for new ASP.NET Core Razorpage in Visual Studio 2017

Question

Starting to work with a web app and following the steps here to use razor pages

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/tutorials/razor-pages/

Is there a template (either in VS or elsewhere) for adding a new razorpage (ie the cshtml and the cshtml.cs files)? As a workaround I created an MVC View page (with the .cshtml ext) and then created a .cs file and renamed it to match the naming pattern.

I'm having problems running the scaffolding as well but that is a separate issue.

Answer 1

You can do this in the latest version of Visual Studio 2017 just by using Add New Item and choosing Razor Page.

You can also use dotnet new. For example:

dotnet new page --name MyPage

See the documentation for dotnet new. You can always get started by just running dotnet new alone to see the available templates.