thanks for your great tutorials on T4. They helped me a lot.

But I still have one small problem: is it possible to trigger the transformation automatically when the source file is changed by an external program (Visual Studio notices the change and prompts if it should reload, etc.)?

We still have to manually save the changed input file at the moment to trigger code generation, which is easily forgotten.

Thanks again…

Fabian

Create a template that connects to CRM web service, brings back a list of entities, then loop through each one and i use the properties to build up my template CS file.
I’d need to reference CRM sdk in my project that has the tt files, but when i try importing the namespaces or referencing the objects via code, it just gives me errors.
Can this sort of thing be done?
thanks,
Paul

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?

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

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