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

By: Oleg Sych

Oleg Sych — Tue, 24 May 2011 19:26:40 +0000

You can generate it as a text file or use the EnvDTE API to create it in object form.

By: Guido Smeets

Guido Smeets — Tue, 24 May 2011 13:50:39 +0000

Is there any (easy) way to automatically generate the .csproj file if the project doesn’t exist yet?

I’m stuck generating different EF4CF models from a custom DSL, and I need to generate the different datacontexts into different assemblies due to restrictions on EF’s part.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:46:25 +0000

If T4 Toolbox relies on Visual Studio extensibilty APIs we can set only output project name without knowing where it’s on file system and its type.
Thus, we won’t depend on output project file system location and its type.
I think it’s very flexible.
What do you think, Oleg?

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.