Comments on: T4 Tutorial: Creating reusable code generation templates

By: Oleg Sych

Oleg Sych — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:19:35 +0000

Updated the article and the sample source code to work with the latest version of T4 Toolbox (replaced RenderCore with TransformText).

By: Oleg Sych

Oleg Sych — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:29:53 +0000

T4Toolbox.tt no longer has the < #@ assembly name=T4Toolbox" #> directive because the assembly name is different under Visual Studio 2010. It is now referenced dynamically, by one of the directive processors. More on this here.

By: Nelis

Nelis — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:49:46 +0000

I’m trying to figure out how the template knows where to find the namespace T4Toolbox as there is no assembly directive for it in T4Toolbox.tt.
Is it not needed because of the declared processors?

By: Oleg Sych

Oleg Sych — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:13:27 +0000

Darren, It sounds like your code looks like this:

void LoadTables()
{
   // ...
}

public class MultifileControllerTest
{
    void TestLoadTables()
    {
        LoadTables();
    }
}

The problem here is that LoadTables is an instance method of the GeneratedTextTransformation class. With T4 Toolbox you could call it this way: TransformationContext.Transformation.LoadTables();

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:02:02 +0000

I am new to T4 templates and I’m having a problem with scope.

I’m including a file in my generator which declares a method called LoadTables()

When I try to use the method in my controller I get the following error.

“Cannot access a non-static member of outer type ‘Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextTemplatingE192B65E6CF2C8BEF26D39CB464DA901.GeneratedTextTransformation’ via nested type ‘Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextTemplatingE192B65E6CF2C8BEF26D39CB464DA901.GeneratedTextTransformation.MultifileControllerTest’”

Is there any way to declare and use this method within the scope of MultifileControllerTest without bringing in the code?

Thanks for your help.

By: Visual Studio T4 template for SharePoint Feature Definition (Feature.xml) - Waldek Mastykarz

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:10:16 +0000

[…] Depending on the type of SharePoint solutions you’re working with, you could easily extend the template to generate the ElementManifest elements as well and to exclude some files and directories from the Feature. All you have to know is the basic syntax of T4 templates. Oleg Sych did a great job of explaining the T4 engine from the very basic topics to some more advanced scenarios of how to reuse the templates across different projects and teams. […]

By: Mark Kamoski

Mark Kamoski — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:33:10 +0000

Google and Bing, here is some text for you to index, text that is easily OCR’able in the image above but that is a trick you have not learned yet apparently…

Error 1 Compiling transformation: The type or namespace name ‘Template’ could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) c:\Code\Team\Cle\Cle.BusinessLayer\BusinessEntities\Generator1.tt 6 27

…so…

HTH.

Thank you.

– Mark Kamoski

By: Oleg Sych

Oleg Sych — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:06:39 +0000

Rick, Template class is defined in T4Toolbox\Template.tt, which is installed under Program Files directory by the T4Toolbox installer.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:04:22 +0000

I also get that error on the download above. This occurs for every Push* Pop* and Write* method. Perhaps I am missing something? Where is the class Template defined from which DeleteProcedureTemplate inherits?

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:47:20 +0000

When I copy the DeleteProcedure Template code into my template I get:

Error 1 Cannot access a non-static member of outer type ‘Ae9310d1e44874327b8e5dd2ae3c645b5.GeneratedTextTransformation’ via nested type ‘Ae9310d1e44874327b8e5dd2ae3c645b5.GeneratedTextTransformation.DeleteProcedureTemplate’ C:\rick\dev\hydrogen\src\Hydrogen.Common.Entity\Edmx\Generators\DeleteProcedureTemplate.tt 19 9 Hydrogen.Common.Entity