Half way down this page it says:
"Before creating the template, you will need to enable scaffolding for this table"

I'm a bit confused by this.

If I already have a model.edmx file of my whole database, do I still need to do this?

My confusion may be because I have not yet internalised the meaning of the word "Scaffolding" in the DD context.

Thanks
Ken

Hi Ken,

Yes I believe you might not quite understand what we mean by the term Scaffolding in this context. In the context of Dynamic Data, the model.edmx class that you have created is referred to as the Data Model. By itself, this class simply contains a description of whatever tables you have specified from the database and some functions to query and update the data.

However, the model.edmx isn't in any way responsible for generating any web pages to actually display this data to an end user. That is what the scaffolding function provided by Dynamic Data is responsible for.

You can enable scaffolding in one of two ways. Firstly it can be enabled within the global.aspx.cs file by setting the ScaffoldAllTables="true" as described at the bottom of page 488. This will automatically scaffold all of the tables described in your model.edmx data model.

Secondly, you can turn of the ScaffoldAllTables (as the book suggests you do on page 491) and enable scaffolding of individual tables by using the ScaffoldTable(True) attribute (code example shown on page 492).

Regards,
Dave

Hi Dave,
That helps a lot.
So is it the case that:
If I have set ScaffoldAllTables="true" in Global asax
Then I don't need to add the C# snippet on page 499?

Thanks
Ken

Yes, that's correct.