Comments on: T4 Toolbox: Automatic Template Transformation

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:30:01 +0000

Hi Oleg,

Is it possible to have 2 custom tools to run?

E.g. Resource.resx, it has a built-in custom tool ResxFileCodeGenerator. Is it possible to trigger both ResxFileCodeGenerator and T4ScriptFileGenerator?

By: Oleg Sych

Oleg Sych — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:42:49 +0000

Sergi,

I don’t think UML class diagrams in modeling projects of Visual Studio 2010 support custom tools. The code-based class diagrams in C# and Visual Basic projects do support them, although there is no meaningful metadata stored in the .cd files - only diagram layout. This article provides an overview of how to generate code from UML diagrams.

Oleg

By: Sergi

Sergi — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:22:50 +0000

Hi Oleg,

I’m trying to associate “T4ScriptFileGenerator” Custom tool with a VS 2010 native class diagram, but it simply ignores it and does not generate the .tt file.

I’m generating code from a class diagram, and I wanted it to generate when the diagram changes, but it doesn’t work to me.

Any idea?

Thanks and great post!
Sergi

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