>>I'm getting my feet wet with ASP.NET MVC. I'm using MVC4, VS2012, and MVC Scaffolding. I pulled in an existing database using the provided wizard. The generated model does not include annotations like [MaxLength] or [Required]. Did I miss something or is that not a feature of the wizard? Seems like a pretty big missing feature if you ask me. Without it, I have to enter all the annotations manually if I want MVC to do the validations.
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>You will need to add a partial class and a metadata class :http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc488527(v=vs.100).aspx
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>Seems like a lot of hassle but if it was not done this way then you would lose any custom validation attributes when the model rebuilds...

I have run into the information about the partial class before, but I couldn't find an answer to the question about the wizard capabilities. Just to confirm... you are saying I did not miss anything. The database importer does not generate any annotations with basic structure information. Correct? That seems extremely limited to me. I may have found something that helps, or if it doesn't, maybe there is something out there: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lgmorand/archive/2010/12/31/entity-framework-template-t4-and-data-annotations.aspx