Comments on: T4 Tutorial: Integrating Generated Files in Visual Studio Projects

By: Hong Shen

Hong Shen — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:50:01 +0000

The toolbox helps me greatly. Really appreciate it.

I am wondering if I can add project reference (referenced project in the same solution as tt) through Ouput?

Thanks

By: Antonio

Antonio — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:36:12 +0000

When I generate various files that are of a project that is in Source Safe, for each, Source Safe asks if I want to erase it and I say no. Is there any way of Source Safe not ask this question?

thanks

By: Farooq

Farooq — Sat, 28 May 2011 03:27:33 +0000

Excellent series of articles! I was wondering how can we generate a project using T4 before using OutputProject property. Can you share a code sample for doing so or point to some example somewhere!

By: Oleg Sych

Oleg Sych — Tue, 24 May 2011 19:30:37 +0000

T4 Toolbox is optimized for continuous (as opposed to single-time) code generation. The log file is required to keep track of files generated outside of the template’s folder.

By: Antonio

Antonio — Tue, 24 May 2011 07:08:08 +0000

A great tool.

Is possible deactivate the log file when the generated file is not located in the same
folder with the root .tt template?

thanks

By: Rodrigo Juarez

Rodrigo Juarez — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:29:20 +0000

Thanks a lot!
I will try to implement some solution …
I post a question in stackoverflow
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4546715/t4-custom-code-blocks

By: Oleg Sych

Oleg Sych — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:23:35 +0000

Rodrigo, I haven’t given much thought to it for my work and don’t have a code sample to share. The general idea is to somehow identify a “generated” block in your target file and instead of letting T4 overwrite the entire file, inject the generated code in this block. How you identify the “generated” block will depend on the format of this file, you could use regions in VB or C#, processing directives in XML and comments in files that store program code in general.

By: Rodrigo Juarez

Rodrigo Juarez — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:18:54 +0000

Can you give me some more information about “implement it in custom code”?

By: Oleg Sych

Oleg Sych — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:09:54 +0000

This is not a built-in feature. The general rule of thumb is to use partial files to achieve the same effect. You could also implement it in custom code.

By: Rodrigo Juarez

Rodrigo Juarez — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:04:39 +0000

Hi
With T4 can you have custom code blocks, that should not be overwritten at generation?
Like PreserveExistingFile but for a block of code in the generated file.
I can’t use partial class in my scenario