Comments on: T4 Tutorial: Reusing code generators on multiple projects

By: Oleg Sych

Oleg Sych — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:24:36 +0000

Thanks, Bill. This is a good point. I have updated the article.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:32:52 +0000

Thank you for the articles. They have been most useful.

If you are running a 64-bit OS, the key is [HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\TextTemplating\IncludeFolders\.tt]

It took me a little while to determine why your advice did not work.

Thanks again.

By: Oleg Sych

Oleg Sych — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:13:04 +0000

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

By: Mark Kamoski

Mark Kamoski — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:24:01 +0000

BTW, in case anyone is interested, I followed Oleg’s instructions above but I added the “reusable files” to a new custom class library project so I could “Add Existing Project” to my Solution and that works great. That “class libary” is just a placeholder to hold the reusable TT files and it makes adding them to a solution a bit easier, IMHO. There is no DLL created, probably because it has no classes in it. Anyway, that works for me– but if anyone sees an issue, then please let me know. Thank you. — Mark Kamoski

By: Mark Kamoski

Mark Kamoski — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:20:05 +0000

Nice. Absolute patsh work like a charm. This stuff is great. Thanks so much for pointing it out, etc, Oleg. I now have a base class generator for tables with a CRUD implementation and a GetByUniqueKey option, along with a ViewBaseClass generator, and a Utility generator, and etc. Nice. I will try to find time to package it and upload it at http://www.codeplex.com/t4toolbox/ if I can make it “useful to others”. Thank you. — Mark Kamoski

By: Oleg Sych

Oleg Sych — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:46:37 +0000

Yes, include directive supports absolute paths. I hope this limitation will be addressed in Visual Studio 2010.

By: Mark Kamoski

Mark Kamoski — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:29:41 +0000

I appreciate the workaround. This is a BIG problem in the core T4 implementation at the VS.NET level, IMHO– they really need to fix that. To have to tell all devleopers on the development team to hack their Registry to do this is not nice and will likely meet with resitance. Can one use absolute paths in the include paths? I know this might sound silly; but, our dev machine build guarantees all our code is in “C:\Code” on every machine; so, if absolute paths work, then I might go that route. Thoughts?

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By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:32:22 +0000

The approach with the registry is great but it only seems to work if you use visual studio to do the generation (i.e. ctrl+s on the NorthwindStoredProcedures.tt). If you try and run NorthwindStoredProcedures.tt via the command prompt using TextTransform.exe, it doesn’t work.

Note in, the end I do not want to execute the templates via the command prompt, but I am creating my own wrapper around which I can trigger a generation via a thick client app.