Comments on: T4 Tutorial: Creating your first code generator

By: jeremy simmons

jeremy simmons — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:23:04 +0000

You can pass in a server name and instance to the Server constructor.
In my case it was Server server = new Server(”.\\SQLEXPRESS”);

By: John Crews

John Crews — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:51:10 +0000

Oleg,

Sorry I haven’t responded. I have been extremely busy and this is the first time I have had time to get back into T4.

Thank you the solution of my extensions. I will try that and let you know the outcome.

Also, I understand you will be speaking at the Tallahassee .Net User’s Group in December. I look forward to your session and hope I have enough knowledge of T4 to discuss this methodology with you.

Thanks,

John

By: Igor loginov

Igor loginov — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:20:45 +0000

Sorry about my previous question. No problem now, just a great surprise “How simple” :) Thanks for these tutorials.

By: Igor loginov

Igor loginov — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:27:47 +0000

Oleg, could you, please, clear one thing to me? I’ve just tried to re-produce your steps. How can I get CodeGeneration selector when adding new item? I use VS2008, I have Visual Studio SDK installed, but there is no CodeGeneration template. What are other requirements?

Thank you.

By: Oleg Sych

Oleg Sych — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:55:09 +0000

Thanks Corey. You can also use T4 with Visual Basic, simply change language parameter of the template directive to “VB” and write Visual Basic code in the code blocks.

By: Corey Furman

Corey Furman — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:49:56 +0000

This seems like a great tool - I wish it was available for Visual Basic.Net.

By: Oleg Sych

Oleg Sych — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:52:35 +0000

John, if I understand you correctly, you have an extension method you want to use in template code. You will need to set language parameter of the template directive to “C#v3.5″ or “VBv3.5″, otherwise T4 engine will use an older version of the compiler that doesn’t support extension methods.

By: John Crews

John Crews — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:54:26 +0000

Oleg,
I wrote an extension to the string object and I am trying to use it in a .tt file but I get an error. Does .tt recongize custom extensions?

By: Paul Kohler

Paul Kohler — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:53:59 +0000

Interesting! It looks a bit like codesmith templates actually…

By: Oleg Sych

Oleg Sych — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:19:19 +0000

Alex,

I blogged about passing parameters to a template from an external tool a couple of months ago. Check out http://www.olegsych.com/2008/04/t4-template-design-standalone-template/.

To answer your second question, I don’t think translating CodeSmith templates on the fly is viable. They are different enough to make such translation very complex. On the other hand, creating T4 templates from scratch is easy. I would guess that the effort required to recreate CodeSmith templates in T4 is less than the effort required to create an automated translation tool.

Hope this helps