Comments on: Code Generation with Visual Studio Templates http://www.olegsych.com/2008/03/code-generation-with-visual-studio-templates/ Absolutes never work Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:21:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Mehmet http://www.olegsych.com/2008/03/code-generation-with-visual-studio-templates/#comment-3204 Mehmet Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:19:20 +0000 http://www.olegsych.com/2008/03/code-generation-with-visual-studio-templates/#comment-3204 Hi Oleg, when I change projectitem from to ,cs file created but $ parameters ($rootnamespace$,..) didn't replaced, when I change projectitem from Class.tt to Class.cs , visual studio (2010) display error message that could not find file ...Class.cs Mehmet Hi Oleg,
when I change projectitem from to ,cs file created but $ parameters ($rootnamespace$,..) didn’t replaced, when I change projectitem from
Class.tt

to
Class.cs
,
visual studio (2010) display error message that could not find file …Class.cs

Mehmet

]]> By: Oleg Sych http://www.olegsych.com/2008/03/code-generation-with-visual-studio-templates/#comment-3202 Oleg Sych Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:47:20 +0000 http://www.olegsych.com/2008/03/code-generation-with-visual-studio-templates/#comment-3202 Mehmet, Yes, you can. Simply make your ProjectItem a .cs file instead of a .tt. Oleg Mehmet,

Yes, you can. Simply make your ProjectItem a .cs file instead of a .tt.

Oleg

]]> By: Mehmet http://www.olegsych.com/2008/03/code-generation-with-visual-studio-templates/#comment-3201 Mehmet Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:23:33 +0000 http://www.olegsych.com/2008/03/code-generation-with-visual-studio-templates/#comment-3201 Hi Oleg, Can we generate only cs file. This example is showed generating tt file. Mehmet. Hi Oleg,

Can we generate only cs file. This example is showed generating tt file.

Mehmet.

]]> By: Oleg Sych http://www.olegsych.com/2008/03/code-generation-with-visual-studio-templates/#comment-2435 Oleg Sych Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:11:39 +0000 http://www.olegsych.com/2008/03/code-generation-with-visual-studio-templates/#comment-2435 T4 itself doesn't have something similar to schema explorer in CodeSmith. However, you can use a number of existing .NET APIs to access database metadata. For example, if you are using SQL Server you can use <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms162169.aspx" rel="nofollow">SMO</a>. Here is an <a href="http://www.olegsych.com/2008/09/t4-tutorial-creatating-your-first-code-generator/" rel="nofollow">example</a>. T4 itself doesn’t have something similar to schema explorer in CodeSmith. However, you can use a number of existing .NET APIs to access database metadata. For example, if you are using SQL Server you can use SMO. Here is an example.

]]> By: Sphengle http://www.olegsych.com/2008/03/code-generation-with-visual-studio-templates/#comment-2434 Sphengle Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:36:34 +0000 http://www.olegsych.com/2008/03/code-generation-with-visual-studio-templates/#comment-2434 Excellent articles on T4! I don't suppose you know if there is a T4 equivalent of CodeSmith's SchemaExplorer. If there was something like this then T4 would be perfect. Sphengle Excellent articles on T4!

I don’t suppose you know if there is a T4 equivalent of CodeSmith’s SchemaExplorer. If there was something like this then T4 would be perfect.

Sphengle

]]> By: Oleg Sych http://www.olegsych.com/2008/03/code-generation-with-visual-studio-templates/#comment-2261 Oleg Sych Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:20:24 +0000 http://www.olegsych.com/2008/03/code-generation-with-visual-studio-templates/#comment-2261 Ashley, I haven't dealt with this particular problem myself. The approach with re-hydrating a ConfigurationSection sounds promising. Oleg Ashley,

I haven’t dealt with this particular problem myself. The approach with re-hydrating a ConfigurationSection sounds promising.

Oleg

]]> By: Ashley Brener http://www.olegsych.com/2008/03/code-generation-with-visual-studio-templates/#comment-2260 Ashley Brener Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:02:37 +0000 http://www.olegsych.com/2008/03/code-generation-with-visual-studio-templates/#comment-2260 ...further to the above, my next idea is to read in the App.config as XML and deserialize the configSection into my custom config object which inherits from ConfigurationSection. Hmmmm..... …further to the above, my next idea is to read in the App.config as XML and deserialize the configSection into my custom config object which inherits from ConfigurationSection.

Hmmmm…..

]]> By: Ashley Brener http://www.olegsych.com/2008/03/code-generation-with-visual-studio-templates/#comment-2259 Ashley Brener Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:59:48 +0000 http://www.olegsych.com/2008/03/code-generation-with-visual-studio-templates/#comment-2259 Hi Oleg, I've been following your articles for some time now and have started to get accustomed to using T4 templates to generate code. I am especially engaged in a massive project whereby I'm bolting on a massive add-on to SubSonic 3 which provides caching for tables registered for SqlCacheDependency dramatically minimising database calls on tables with data that does not frequently change. On top of that, business objects are automatically customised with more useful properties which can be serialized the way you want using a custom serializer. My problem is that my customizeable parameters are stored in the App.config as a configSection. Using T4, I can get all of the general Configuration settings using ConfigurationManager.OpenMappedExeconfiguration() but the configSections are not available. In my test console app, I can get the configuration settings and configSections using ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration() but it obviously won't get access to the app.config in the T4 since there is no .exe file. Have you encountered this kind of problem before or are you able to provide some insight on a solution? Hi Oleg,

I’ve been following your articles for some time now and have started to get accustomed to using T4 templates to generate code. I am especially engaged in a massive project whereby I’m bolting on a massive add-on to SubSonic 3 which provides caching for tables registered for SqlCacheDependency dramatically minimising database calls on tables with data that does not frequently change. On top of that, business objects are automatically customised with more useful properties which can be serialized the way you want using a custom serializer.

My problem is that my customizeable parameters are stored in the App.config as a configSection. Using T4, I can get all of the general Configuration settings using ConfigurationManager.OpenMappedExeconfiguration() but the configSections are not available. In my test console app, I can get the configuration settings and configSections using ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration() but it obviously won’t get access to the app.config in the T4 since there is no .exe file.

Have you encountered this kind of problem before or are you able to provide some insight on a solution?

]]> By: Emir Treviño http://www.olegsych.com/2008/03/code-generation-with-visual-studio-templates/#comment-247 Emir Treviño Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:43:54 +0000 http://www.olegsych.com/2008/03/code-generation-with-visual-studio-templates/#comment-247 You can generate code from Entity FRamewok Model with this tool: http://www.codeplex.com/sfs You can try please? You can generate code from Entity FRamewok Model with this tool:

http://www.codeplex.com/sfs

You can try please?

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