Comments on: T4 Tutorial: Creating complex code generators

By: Oleg Sych

Oleg Sych — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:15:27 +0000

Good tip, Stanislav. Thanks! It’s too bad this workaround generates a warning.

By: Stanislav Kniazev

Stanislav Kniazev — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:27:26 +0000

This is in reply to ##8&9: I’ve found a bug that looks more like feature that allows to suppress an output file generation - specify an invalid extension in output directive like this:
< #@ output extension="\n" #> or < #@ output extension="\\" #> or < #@ output extension="?" #>

By: Oleg Sych

Oleg Sych — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:19:16 +0000

Peter, thanks for pointing this out. I have updated the article.

By: Peter LaComb

Peter LaComb — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:10:23 +0000

Could you please update this page as with the previous one to refer to the ‘Script’ item instead of ‘File’ in the section “Reuse the code generator’.

By: Brandon Dimperio

Brandon Dimperio — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:33:40 +0000

i’ve followed every step of the articles in order so far without trouble but this line:”Click Project->Add New Item in the main menu and select File item from the Code Generation folder in the dialog.”

I don’t have a ‘File item’ listed in the Code Generation Category?

By: Oleg Sych

Oleg Sych — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:12:47 +0000

Updated source code to be compatible with version 9.10 of the T4 Toolbox.

By: Oleg Sych

Oleg Sych — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:57:05 +0000

Unfortunately, no. This file is created by the Visual Studio itself, after T4 is done generating the file. Visual Studio will generate the output file even if main template output is empty.

By: Mark Kamoski

Mark Kamoski — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:22:35 +0000

This is a small thing. There is an extra- file created by this approach. The extra-file in this example is “NorthwindProcedures.txt”. Is there a way to supress the creation of this extra-file?

By: Billy McCaferty and his S#arp Architecture « Fluent.Interface

Billy McCaferty and his S#arp Architecture « Fluent.Interface — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:02:20 +0000

[…] also makes dudious use of the T4 templating support built into VS2008 to codegen files from the Model objects through to Views and Controllers. A great kick start for any new project […]

By: z00100

z00100 — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:24:35 +0000

Also, there is an error in article:

Select DeleteProcedureTemplate.tt in the solution explorer and change Custom Tool property from TextTemplatingFileGenerator to an empty value. This will prevent Visual Studio from trying to use this file for code generation and reporting errors in the Error List window.

Must be CrudProcedureGenerator.tt instead of DeleteProcedureTemplate.tt.