Get Started. Key Features Intellisense Devart T4 Editor provides comprehensive intellisense including all Visual Studio C and Visual Basic intellisense features - tooltips, parameter info, code completion, and additionally supports a completion list for template directives.
Goto Devart T4 Editor allows you to navigate to definitions and declarations of objects and members if they are present in the template file or included files. Include Devart T4 Editor supports multilevel template including. Outlining Devart T4 Editor supports fast and convenient code folding feature.
Editor Customization You can enable or disable intellisense, word wrapping, virtual whitespace, line numbers, etc. Indenting Devart T4 Editor provides customizable and intelligent indenting. That looks great.
One more thing to look at would be the generation of multiple files from a single tt file. It can be done, but it doesn't feel right. It's not a huge pain, just a tiny little cut Tim Larson. Love T4 templates - they are the backbone to most basic object mapping systems, and make life a little easier.
Karl Schulze. And it opened my eyes to the power of "writing code that writes code". Once the non technical user was done, they would check in their changes, and then the automated build would check out the file, run my T4 utility to parse it and turn it into C code. Then the code file was checked in, compiled and tested. The NON Tech users would actually have the ability to break the build and need to fix it themselves!
How cool is that? To this day, it's one of my greatest professional accomplishments. Thanks T4 team!!! William Gregg. Big fan of T4. Please continue to make productive improvements like this one. I love T4 templates and this will make them much easier to use. Brian Feucht. We use T4 as an ORM of sorts. In our case, it replaced CodeSmith. It generates stored procedures, database layer, service layer and even some front-end stuff as a starting point that we then hand edit.
Timothy Lee Russell. Great to hear that debugging T4 templates in VS will be easier. The old method of debugging launching a second VS instance to debug the first instance was cumbersome and rarely ever worked correctly. I owe Gareth and Tim a beer for this one! As for syntax highlighting I've tried all three of the third-party T4 syntax highlighters, and haven't really been impressed with any of them. They're buggy, sluggish, and their intellisense is abysmal.
I'd kill for VS. Net to have native support for T4 as a first-class citizen. James Messinger. Jim Mitten. I always thought "great, now they implemented the next epic feature, but while working with VS you get poked by a thousand little things". VS was already a big step in the right direction. NuGet was an awesome feature making a lot of workflows a ton easier, and VS will ease the whole process. Also I am really "proud" of you guys for using awesome open source projects, contributing to them to get even better and not playing "big bad Microsoft" which would have tried to swallow a lot of those projects.
Even placing MVC as open source speaks volumes and just gives a "good feeling". This is an essential block you need to be able to cope with anything going wrong in the process of using T4 templates.
Thanks Andreas. Andreas Kroll. Never used it BUT, I just got an awesome idea like 3 days ago that would only be possible with T4. So I'm happy with the update! We use it in almost every web project such a great feature and best kept secret ever in VS!
It's not just about code generation, it makes our life easier and safer from typos and mistakes. Goran Bralo. I use Code Generation in all my projects. Since I first met T4 this is my first choice for Code Generation. Christian Gottinger. Count me in as another fan of T4. TextTemplating: MyTemplate. ToStringHelper' MyTemplate. TransformText '. Daniel Regner. I think this is what Binary refers to When the template processor parses the template, it builds a class derived from the TextTransformation class in the Microsoft.
TextTemplating namespace. Once the engine finishes parsing the template it instantiates this class and invokes a TransformText method. The processor builds the TransformText method by taking all the code inside of standard control blocks and placing it inside the method. Mike H. August 11, I am developing a template library at work to easy the programmers work. I also post on my blog a suite of. So - debug the template is best!
Ignat Andrei. T4 has come in handy so many times and having a built in debugger is a big help! Would love to see T4 gain a little more prominence among the "big" features. August 13, Just stopped by to let everyone know I could not do without T4. We use it to generate literaly hundreds of classes within our webservices. It saves a great deal of time and it provides us with great flexibility when it comes to adding or rethinking features in our framework.
If we would not have T4 we would have to build or buy tooling, which would cost us dearly. With T4 and the templates already provided by Microsoft we were able to do a lot of work for a fraction of the cost.
T4 Editor intellisense lists all available C classes and members. You can distinguish text from the function calls easily. Colors and Fonts for templates can be customized like in any other Visual Studio code editor. Goto: Allows you to navigate to definitions and declarations of objects and members if they are present in the template file or included files.
Include: Supports multi-level template inclusion. All classes from included templates are available in intellisense, and you can navigate to them with Go To menu commands. Outlining: Supports the fast and convenient code folding feature. A capability to hide or display T4 control blocks makes it easier to understand and edit T4 templates. Editor Customization: You can enable or disable intellisense, word wrapping, virtual whitespace, line numbers, etc.
You can also change fonts and colors for syntax highlighting. For a domain-specific language DSL , designed to express statements in a particular problem space, learn how to Generate Code from a Domain-Specific Language.
There are two kinds of T4 text templates: run time and design time. Run time templates are also known as 'preprocessed' templates. You run the templates in your application to produce text strings, as part of its output. For example, you can create a template to define an HTML page:. Notice that the template resembles the generated output. The similarity of the template to the resulting output helps you avoid mistakes when you want to change it.
In addition, the template contains fragments of program code. You can use these fragments to repeat sections of text, to make conditional sections, and to show data from your application. To generate the output, your application calls a function that is generated by the template. For example:.
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