Comments on: T4 Toolbox: Generating files in different folders and projects

By: Oleg Sych

Oleg Sych — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:57:18 +0000

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

By: Oleg Sych

Oleg Sych — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:58:28 +0000

Zoltan, you can add generated files to the CF project directly instead of using linked files by setting Template.Output.Project property. If that is not sufficient for your scenario, I would encourage you to post details on the T4 Toolbox forum where we can continue this discussion more productively.

By: zoltan

zoltan — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 06:01:12 +0000

I encountered a similar problem. I have two project 1 for .NET and 1 for Compact Framework. I use T4 in .NET, and tried to use generated output files in Compact Framework as ‘linked files’. Unfortunatelly the code generation remove my file links from CF project. Thanks for this help page it is solve my problem. One minor problem: I need generate duplicate files into CF folders too. Is there any possibility for support linking?

Thanks,
Zoltan

By: Alexey Baskakov

Alexey Baskakov — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:12:12 +0000

p.s. So you have to add “Folder” (aka Filter in vcproj) manually. It works.

How about EnvDTE.ProjectItems.AddFilter?

By: Alexey Baskakov

Alexey Baskakov — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:07:44 +0000

Unfortunally, adding folders doesn’t work with vcproj files (see exception below).

Adding just file works fine with vcproj:
template.Output.File = @”SubFolder_SampleOutput.txt”;

Bad :(

Error 1 An Exception was thrown while running the transformation code. The process cannot continue. The following Exception was thrown:
System.NotImplementedException: The method or operation is not implemented.
at EnvDTE.ProjectItems.AddFolder(String Name, String Kind)
at T4Toolbox.DteProcessor.AddFolder(ProjectItems collection, String folderName, String basePath)
at T4Toolbox.DteProcessor.AddToSolution(OutputFile output)
at T4Toolbox.DteProcessor.UpdateOutputFiles(IEnumerable`1 outputFiles)
at T4Toolbox.DteProcessor.UpdateFiles(ICollection`1 outputFiles)
at T4Toolbox.OutputManager.UpdateFiles()
at System.AppDomain.DoCallBack(CrossAppDomainDelegate callBackDelegate)
at System.AppDomain.DoCallBack(CrossAppDomainDelegate callBackDelegate)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextTemplating5E57A08A9EE60EF3CFDB409E1989F9AD.GeneratedTextTransformation.TransformationContext.OnTransformationEnded(TextTransformation transformation) in c:\Program Files\T4 Toolbox\T4Toolbox\TransformationContext.tt:line 284
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextTemplating5E57A08A9EE60EF3CFDB409E1989F9AD.GeneratedTextTransformation.Dispose(Boolean disposing) in c:\Program Files\T4 Toolbox\T4Toolbox.tt:line 49
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextTemplating.TextTransformation.Dispose()
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextTemplating.TransformationRunner.RunTransformation(String fullClassName, String baseClassName, String[] importedNamespaces, String[] references, String source, String inputFile, Boolean debug, SupportedLanguages language, IDictionary`2 languageOptions, IFormatProvider format, ITextTemplatingEngineHost host, Boolean cacheAssemblies, String& result) 1

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 13 May 2009 03:26:16 +0000

Oops, my problem has already been raised on CodePlex - sorry!

http://t4toolbox.codeplex.com/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=13146

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 13 May 2009 03:11:25 +0000

if I create a solution folder andd put ClassLibrary2.csproj in it then I get this error:

Target project E:\devplay\ClassLibrary2\ClassLibrary2.csproj does not belong to the solution

Not catastrophic but I use solution folders alot, so would be nice if this worked.

By: Oleg Sych

Oleg Sych — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:31:19 +0000

Sean, this may be a bug in T4 Toolbox. Could you post source code and detailed description in the T4 Toolbox forum on CodePlex? Thanks.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:05:08 +0000

Thank Oleg, but how do I do that.

I can have it generate code in one big file with ” template.Render() “;

but when I try to gernerate it into mutliple files with ” template.RenderToFile(entity.Name + “_DataAccess.cs”); ”

it gives me the [ Target project “path” does not belong to the solution.] again. I didn’t even call the Output.Project property in my code.

By: Oleg Sych

Oleg Sych — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:40:54 +0000

Sean, does the project path you specified in the template match the project path you see in the Properties Window when you select the project in Solution Explorer?

Yes, you should be able to leave Output.Project blank and add the files to the target project manually. The file will appear in both projects.