Remove unused using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Rendering from Index.cshtml.cs scaffolding snippets

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The snippetFullFirstGenerated block in the Razor Pages tutorial's Index.cshtml.cs included using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Rendering, which the old scaffolder's Index template does not generate (only Create/Edit templates do). This caused a mismatch between the docs and what users see when following the tutorial.

• Removed using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Rendering; from the snippetFullFirstGenerated block in:
  • snapshot-sample10/Pages/Movies/Index.cshtml.cs (aspnetcore-10.0)
  • snapshot_sample9/Pages/Movies/Index.cshtml.cs (aspnetcore-9.0)
• Other blocks (SEARCH_NEWPROPS, FIRST_GENERATED_INDEX) retain Mvc.Rendering since SelectList is used there
• No changes to Create/Delete/Details/Edit files — those correctly match scaffolder output

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<issue_title>Remove unused usings</issue_title>
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These are the only three namespaces I need for the Index page:

using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.RazorPages;
using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
using RazorPagesMovie.Models;

You might want to right click on the using statements at the top of all your pages and select "Remove and Sort Usings" to get rid of unneeded usings.
As you write code if you let intelligence finish off class names [hit tab] the VS IDE automatically inserts the needed using statement back in.

Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/tutorials/razor-pages/page?view=aspnetcore-10.0&tabs=visual-studio

Content source URL

https://github.com/dotnet/AspNetCore.Docs/blob/main/aspnetcore/tutorials/razor-pages/page.md

Document ID

15e79e80-8d46-7cd5-c883-6cc0f5940a1b

Platform Id

c731bb82-fefd-1cfc-91d3-8ea9527d2680

Article author

@wadepickett

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Comments on the Issue (you are @copilot in this section)

@wadepickett Thanks @smiller7812 for taking the time to file this issue. You are right, that should be reviewed.

The tutorial does need to reflect what the developer would see on their own screen when project or scaffolding templates are used. The templates in some cases put in using statements that would be useful, but are not used in the focused tutorial example. I would guess however there are some in there that are not added by the templates, and yet not used. I'll check.</comment_new>
<comment_new>@wadepickett

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This preliminary assessment report was run by: @wadepickett
Date: 2026-03-05
Issue: 36838
Model: GitHub Copilot

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Issue Analysis: Remove unused usings from Razor Pages tutorial code samples

✅ Issue Validation

Status: Valid — but requires nuanced action based on scaffolding template analysis

📋 Issue Summary

The issue requests removing unnecessary using statements from code samples in the Razor Pages tutorial. However, investigation of the actual ASP.NET Core scaffolding templates in dotnet/Scaffolding reveals that the using statements present in the documentation samples are intentionally generated by the scaffolding tooling that the tutorial instructs users to run. The tutorial should match what users actually see when following along.

Key Finding: Two Generations of Scaffolding Templates

The dotnet/Scaffolding repository contains two scaffolding codepaths:

Scaffolder	Used By	Usings Generated	Tutorial Uses It?
Old scaffolder (VS.Web.CG.Mvc / aspnet-codegenerator)	VS "Add Scaffolded Item" UI + dotnet aspnet-codegenerator CLI	Verbose: includes System;, System.Collections.Generic;, System.Linq;, System.Threading.Tasks;, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Rendering;, etc.	Yes — both the VS tab and VS Code tab use this scaffolder
New scaffolder (dotnet-scaffold / T4 templates under net10.0/)	dotnet scaffold aspnet razorpages-crud CLI	Minimal: only Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.RazorPages;, Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore; + dynamic model/context namespaces	No — the tutorial does not currently instruct users to use this

Evidence from the old scaffolder templates (CreatePageModel.cshtml):

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.RazorPages;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Rendering;

Evidence from the new .NET 10 scaffolder templates ([IndexModel.tt](https://github.com...

• Fixes Remove unused usings #36838

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[wadepickett]

Approved.

[wadepickett]

@copilot, you removed a line of code in 2 files. Those 2 files are referenced by the tutorial articles series in this location and often refer to line numbers when highlighting code lines form that code that is included as an include file. Verify if the highlighting or any other paramameters specifying lines of code for those to code files as includes are still correct. If not, fix them.

aspnetcore/tutorials/razor-pages/

[Copilot]

@copilot, you removed a line of code in 2 files. Those 2 files are referenced by the tutorial articles series in this location and often refer to line numbers when highlighting code l...

Verified all references to both modified files across page.md, page9.md, search.md, and search9.md. All code includes use named snippets (?name=snippetFullFirstGenerated, ?name=snippet2FirstGenerated, etc.) rather than absolute line numbers, so the line removal doesn't shift any highlights or ranges.

The only &highlight=12-18 parameters appear on snippet_search_newProps references, which are in the SEARCH_NEWPROPS block — that block was not modified. All other highlight/range parameters reference .cshtml files, not the .cshtml.cs files that were changed. No markdown updates needed.

[wadepickett]

Verified removed code lines did not change the display in the tutorial improperly. All good.