Scaffolding fails System.IO.FileTooLongException

[pholly]

Visual Studio 2015
ASP.NET core 1.1
.NET framework 4.6.2

If there are nested folders in your project that exceed max file/path length scaffolding will fail on the Build step. I used Visual Studio to try to scaffold a Entity Framework Controller. I had a node_modules folder that had folders nested way too deep.

Verified that when I deleted the node_modules folder I was able to add a EF controller.

Excluding node_modules from my project.json didn't change anything.

I now realize I can call dotnet aspnet-codegenerator with a --no-build flag. I didn't try it but because I get the error in a build step I'm pretty sure that would solve my problem.

[mlorbetske]

Thanks for the heads up, passing --no-build in this situation (after having otherwise built your application) is the appropriate course of action