Archives for August, 2008

T4 Toolbox


You may have noticed that in my last couple of articles about T4, the download links point to a CodePlex project called T4 Toolbox. This post describes what this project is about.

August meeting of Tampa Bay IASA chapter


Web Service Software Factory Modeling Edition
The Web Service Software Factory (WSSF) Modeling Edition focuses on building the server side of a web services infrastructure, using either ASMX or WCF services. The new release uses three Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) to model services: service contract, data contract and host models. Through use of these DSLs, WSSF […]

Extending T4: <#@ xsd #> directive


This article describes a custom T4 directive processor for converting XML schema definitions into .NET classes, which allows using strongly-typed code to extract information from various XML files. In particular, this simplifies creating custom T4 code generation templates for LINQ to SQL .dbml files and ADO.NET Entity Framework .edmx files. The article includes links to ready to use xsd directive processor and sample source code.