Visual Studio provides a default custom tool based on the file extension. If you’re working in Visual Studio 2010, select Text Template in the Add Item dialog. To create a T4 template in Visual Studio 2005 (after you’ve installed the DSL Toolkit) or 2008, create a text file and save it with a. With the default Visual Studio behavior, T4 has limited metadata capabilities and outputs only one file per template. You can create one or many files depending on the capabilities of your tool. The output file can be anything-including documentation, configuration, and code files such as C#, Visual Basic. You take some sort of template and some sort of input data and create a new file as output. NET Framework because it’s a design-time tool. The T4 language is very similar in all of these versions of Visual Studio.
Visual Studio 2010 includes T4 in the Add Item dialog. If you’re running Visual Studio 2008, T4 is already on your box, although it’s well hidden. If you’re running Visual Studio 2005, you’ll need to download and install the DSL Toolkit to have T4 available. T4 stands for Text Templating Transformation Toolkit. I’ll show the generation language itself, and then return to cover a few approaches to executing templates and which portions of your applications are most likely to benefit from generation. This article discusses using the T4 generation language outside DSL to generate portions of your applications.
When you have time to explore it, the DSL Toolkit provides a nice visual DSL, particularly in Visual Studio 2010. While I won’t cover DSL in this article, aspects of T4 are easier to understand in connection with this perspective. NET language, which creates the run-time artifact for representing the DSL. DSL stands for Domain Specific Language and code generation transforms information written in a DSL into a. Microsoft’s code-generation tool emerged from the DSL Toolkit. I’ll show you how to use T4 in Studio 2005 and beyond. Visual Studio 2010 makes T4 easier to find and supplies a powerful new feature called preprocessed templates. Microsoft’s generation language is T4 and it is included in the box starting with Visual Studio 2008. It has the potential toĭecrease bugs and increase your ability to alter code across your application as needs change. Code generation lets you automatically create significant portions of your application. Visual Studio 2010 makes generation easier to find and supplies a powerful new feature called preprocessed templates. Microsoft included its T4 generation language in the box in Visual Studio 2008 and added important new features in Visual Studio 2010.
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