>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.

The Scaffolding is a down and dirty one way tool - I wouldn't recommend that for anything but a down and dirty protype environment :-)

For the data import features - you might try the EF Code First Power Tools. It includes an db import wizard as well (not sure if it's the same one or not) and it might do a better job of picking up database features.

As the name suggests: Code First is meant as a coding tool and not a Wizard interface. The other Entitity Framework modes - Database First and Model First are better aimed to deal with complete database imports than Code First which is meant as a coded approach to generating a database from the model.

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