Comments on: T4 template for generating SQL view from C# enumeration

By: yauhen

yauhen — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:50:31 +0000

How to get enum value attributes?
By strange reason description of attributes property says that it “returns attributes of parent”

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By: Oleg Sych

Oleg Sych — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:03:32 +0000

Justin,

Does your script specify a valid path to the enum file? I can see in how it could throw a NullReferenceException when the file cannot be found.

Oleg

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:37:57 +0000

GetEnum() throws reference not set to an object exception.

EnvDTE.ProjectItem enumProjectItem = TransformationContext.FindProjectItem(”my file path.cs”);
enumProjectItem is null;

What am I doing wrong?

Error 1 Running transformation: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextTemplatingBB88E5E873511E8E0604412A18F7F962.GeneratedTextTransformation.EnumSqlViewTemplate.GetEnum()
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextTemplatingBB88E5E873511E8E0604412A18F7F962.GeneratedTextTransformation.EnumSqlViewTemplate.TransformText()
at T4Toolbox.Template.Transform()
at T4Toolbox.Template.Render()
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextTemplatingBB88E5E873511E8E0604412A18F7F962.GeneratedTextTransformation.TransformText()
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextTemplating.TransformationRunner.RunTransformation(TemplateProcessingSession session, String source, ITextTemplatingEngineHost host, String& result) 1 1

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By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:40:58 +0000

Doesn’t this method prevent automated building with MSBuild as it needs VS to be running to function? is there a work around?

By: Oleg Sych

Oleg Sych — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:26:36 +0000

Brandon, GetEnum method is defined in the code generation template itself.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:31:57 +0000

What namespace is GetEnum() in? I can’t seem to find it either in EnvDTE or google

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:16:45 +0000

I’ve done something similar to this - I got around the DB project problem by adding my table definition (id & name) to the DB project, and using the generated SQL (re)populate it with the correct data.

The generated SQL can then be included in a DB project’s post deployment script using something like

:r “..\ProjectWithT4\GeneratedEnums.sql”

I’m also using T4 to generate both my SQL and enum definition (.NET) code. With your method, I believe the SQL is not regenerated unless the template file is touched - this way a change causes both to be regenerated.

By: Anthony Bouch

Anthony Bouch — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:43:59 +0000

Would be great to have a template that creates an SQL view from the descriptor pattern as well as an enumeration.

http://www.devx.com/enterprise/Article/28246/0/page/3

http://www.58bits.com/blog/2008/06/30/AUIAndCultureFriendlyReplacementForEnumerationTypes.aspx