Oleg Sych

This article provides an overview of UML modeling in Visual Studio 2010. Assuming that reader is already familiar with UML, it focuses on custom UML profiles - an extensibility mechanism that can be used to tailor UML models to a particular problem domain. Readers will see an example of such a profile, which extends UML Class Diagrams for database modeling. Finally, the article shows how code can be generated from UML models using T4 text templates.

This article reviews the theory and practice behind ADO.NET Entity Framework, discusses limitations of the current tools it provides and compares the benefits offered by solving the object-relational impedance mismatch against their costs. The article suggest using Entity Framework to improve and reduce costs of data-driven application design, which is prevalent in todays information systems and describes a code generation solution built using T4 Toolbox that can be used to achieve this goal.

Back in October, I presented a session on Code Generation with T4 at the Developer Tools Ecosystem Summit. This session provides an overview of developing code generators with T4, starting with template syntax and transformation process, to template debugging, to integration and deployment. During this session you see a sample code generator built from scratch, […]

This article discusses new features of T4 Toolbox that allow you trigger code generation automatically when the input or model file changes and while still giving developers the ability to customize the code generation using rich template-based functionality of T4.

As of version 9.10, T4 Toolbox now supports Visual Studio 2010 in addition to Visual Studio 2008.

This article provides an overview of preprocessed text templates in Visual Studio 2010 and includes detailed description of differences between preprocessed and traditional text templates.

This article discusses advantages and drawbacks of T4 and CodeDOM and shows how to combine these code generation technologies to get the best of both worlds and allow tool developers to build code generators that can produce code in multiple .NET languages and allow application developers to extend them using templating features of T4 and the programming language of their choice.

This article provides an overview of Domain-Specific Languages in Visual Studio SDK and demonstrates how to use T4 Toolbox to make DSL code generators easier to use, maintain and extend.

This article provides an overview of customizing process guidance for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.

As of version 9.7, T4 Toolbox now supports Visual Basic as the template language in addition to C#.