Do viewmodels need keys?

Question

I have my view model :

namespace projInterview.Models
{
    public class QuestionViewModel
    {
        public piQuestion Question { get; set; }
        public          


        

Answer 1

For the sake of completion: when selecting a model in the View scaffolder, a domain model is expected, so it also pre-populates the Data context class and as such it expects a key. When selecting a viewmodel, simply delete the pre-filled DAL class and leave the DAL field blank.

If you actually define a key for a viewmodel, as I wrongly did, the scaffolder adds a definition of the viewmodel to the context class. To remedy the mess I had made, I deleted the viewmodel definitions from my context class and removed the keys from my viewmodels.

I finally got the idea from this answer.