I've got a project converted from SharePoint 2010 to 2013, using Visual Studio 2012. After I cleaned up references and other things and got the features deployed, I noticed that ListView web parts do not show the+Add New Item link at the bottom. They also don't show the newNew Item or Edit this List links on top.
Opening a list directly does show the New Item or Edit this list menu.
If I create a list by hand and do the insert web part onto a page, and pick the handmade list, I get the New Item menu when I set the web part to use the Summary rather than Full menu.
So is it a view definition, a list definition, or some other artifact that has to be modified, and how? I stepped through the list schema and just don't see what is so different between the handmade list and the one from a custom schema.xml.