Tag: t4

All the articles with the tag "t4".

• T4 Assembly references for Design-time templates

  27 Sep, 2012

  Common patterns for referencing assemblies in T4 design-time templates using GAC paths, absolute paths, and MSBuild variables.

• T4 Design-Time templates base class

  27 Sep, 2012

  How to create a shared custom base class for T4 design-time templates by extending TextTransformation, with a working example.

• T4 Templates and Null in Expression block

  27 Sep, 2012

  T4 templates throw ArgumentNullException on null expression blocks; fix by overriding ToStringWithCulture in the base class.

• T4 Runtime Template and code-behind logic

  27 Sep, 2012

  How to add a code-behind partial class to a T4 runtime template by manually editing the csproj file, with a Visual Studio add-in.

• T4 Runtime Templates Base Class

  26 Sep, 2012

  Demonstrates extracting T4 runtime template auto-generated base class into a shared reusable C# base class for all templates.

• T4 Syntax

  26 Sep, 2012

  Overview of T4 template syntax including directives, text blocks, control blocks, expression blocks, and class feature blocks.

• T4 Syntax highlighting and IntelliSense

  24 Sep, 2012

  Third-party Visual Studio extensions for T4 syntax highlighting and IntelliSense, with a note on Visual Studio 2012 gaps.

• T4 blog section

  24 Sep, 2012

  Introduction to the T4 (Text Template Transformation Toolkit) blog series covering code generation in Visual Studio.