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Steve Sanderson has a nice post up about a project he's working on with the estimable Scott Hanselman . It's a NuGet package that provides an even easier on-ramp to development with the just-released ASP.NET MVC3 framework. In their words, it quickly...

Over the last few posts, I've talked about the exciting improvements we've made to T4 Text Templating in Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2010. Here's a quick roundup: Firstly, T4 no longer locks referenced assemblies in memory , meaning it's much easier...

I promised in the last post that I’d show how to do template extensibility and customization using inheritance with regular templates, rather than the preprocessed kind, so here goes. The preprocessed solution was a three-layer design. The base preprocessed...

Last time, in Part II , I described a highly structured approach to creating and harnessing a preprocessed template to generate a simple C# class from metadata. I put lots of nice extensibility points in that template and now we’re going to exploit them...

  Last time , I outlined my scenario – we have a template that produces a very vanilla C# class from metadata and we’d like to customize it to produce something more directly applicable to our current project.  Of course, we could always just...

We’ve done a bunch of work on T4 in Visual Studio 2010 SP1 to enable template inheritance.  A reasonable question at this point would be “Why would you want inheritance in your text templates?” Well, the typical reason would be the same as with any...