Scaffolding empty controller/view in VS 15.4.3 adds EF package references

• ASP.NET Core 2.0.0
• Visual Studio 15.4.3

If you right-click in Solution Explorer and add a controller or a view and specify it should be empty - no model, no actions, etc. - the scaffolding still adds references to:

• Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design 2.0.0
• Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer 2.0.0
• Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools 2.0.0
• Mcirosoft.VisualStudio.Web.BrowserLink 2.0.0
• Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Design 2.0.0.

These get added as application references, not even with <PrivateAssets>all</PrivateAssets> to indicate they’re development dependencies instead of actual project references.

Is this expected? Could there be a way to scaffold an empty controller and/or empty view without adding any of these?

[vijayrkn]

Thanks for the confirmation. This build will be released soon.

[stijnherreman]

@deepchoudhery Yes, but only when targetting .NET Framework, which happens to be what my existing project is targetting. It does not happen when targetting .NET Core, but that is probably because the Microsoft.AspNetCore.App package already references the EF Core packages. Not sure where the BrowserLink package comes from.