We’ve now got a third contender in the Visual Studio T4 Editor space.  The good folks over at DevArt have joined the race. From their press release: Devart today releases a new powerful Visual Studio add-in for editing T4 templates with syntax highlighting, intellisense, code outlining, and...

  A few weeks ago, I recorded a podcast about T4, and how it’s being used inside and outside Microsoft with the estimable David Starr , who I happened to meet up with at the recent MVP Summit . You can check it out in the PluralSight Pluralcast blog . Enjoy. http://www.pluralsight-training.net/community...

Rab Hallett has a nice tool in the VS Gallery that uses T4 templates to generate mocks for unit-testing EF-based applications Maintenance-Free Mocking for Unit Testing with EntityFramework 4.0 Technorati Tags: T4 , Entity Framework , Unit Testing , Mock Objects

The newly released Visualization and Modeling SDK for Visual Studio 2010 includes support for integrating T4 with msbuild. (yay!) The ever-diligent Oleg Sych has the full skinny here . Technorati Tags: T4 , msbuild , Visual Studio 2010

The estimable MVP and T4 enthusiast, Kathleen Dollard has a new post where she's using T4's ability to spit arbitrary text as a host for a textual DSL. She's set up a small DSL for describing contract interfaces for a MEF framework: new Interface() { Name = "ISearchModelBase" , Scope = Scope.Public,...

A couple of folks out there have put together some really neat T4 templates that use the host-specific flag and then access Visual Studio's DTE object model to read state from other code in the project and use that as metadata for code generation. Daniel Vaughan started out with a nice post on using...

Colin Eberhardt has a nice article on The Code Project walking through using a small textual DSL encoded in XML to define a set of dependency properties and then using that as a data source for T4 to generate all of the necessary boilerplate code. Apart from being intrinsically cool, he's also doing...

Couple of newsworthy T4 links for the wildly popular ASP.Net MVC framework. This one is from July but I hadn't spotted it - David Ebbo has a new version of his T4MVC set of templates for view generation. Space Invader Zim (nice name) has a walkthrough of an extension to the standard templates that he...

There's a fun interview with Peter Vogel on the subject of Code Gen on the ever-popular .NET Rocks talkshow. He's got a new code gen book coming out and in the interview he says he's going to have an "expansion pack" for the book to cover T4. Can't wait for that. You can find the audio here and a transcript...

For all you SharePoint heads out there, Waldek Mastykarz has a couple of neat articles on generating some of the various config files that control a SharePoint instance using T4: Visual Studio T4 template for SharePoint Solution (DDF) Visual Studio T4 template for SharePoint Feature Definition (Feature...

Although data-binding to WPF is a feature of DSL Tools in Visual Studio 2010, that hasn’t stopped our vibrant community from hacking away to get results today with VS2008. Have a look at this selection of posts: Using WPF As The Designer Surface In DSL Tools Provide an improved user experience to your...

I've been remiss generally in not blogging while we've been heads down on Visual Studio Beta1, but never more so than in respect of another T4 Editor that's recently become available. The good folks over at Tangible Engineering have been releasing several versions of their T4 Editor for Visual Studio...

I see that Clarius have now got to an alpha stage for the next stage of their T4 editing toolset. As well as their Community Edition and Pro Edition, they're now going to offer a full-featured code generation environment they're calling Visual T4 Code Generator , including tight integration with server...

Jean-Marc has just released a complete walkthrough of DSL Tools for Visual Studio 2008 aimed at DSL beginners as a lab on CodeGallery. Here you can see the language from the lab designing mouse gestures for manipulating primitives in a simple graphics program. Very nice indeed. Technorati Tags: DSL Tools...

Adam has a groovy post on T4 , but he's under the impression that you can't use C# extension methods in T4. I just wanted to discuss the limitations that exist and show how you can take advantage of this cool C#/VB 3.5 feature. Extension methods require you to declare a top-level static class, and don...

Hot on the heels of all the interest Scott's post has generated in T4, Jon Stonecash has a useful consolidation of T4 links . Technorati Tags: T4

Just a quick note that there are a couple of DSL/T4 specific sessions among the plethora of great VSX content just posted by Anthony . Jean-Marc's DSL 101 Session Domain-Specific Development with Visual Studio DSL Tools Domain-Specific Language Models are a powerful technique for embodying in a tool...

These videos have been around for quite a while now, but I suddenly realised that I didn't have any links to them on the blog. It's an hour or so of Ted and I chewing the fat on the why's and wherefores of Domain-Specific Development. If this is your bag and you can put up with my shiny blue MSFT shirt...

Aaron just pointed out to me that Scott Hanselman has been lavishing love on T4 , Oleg's techniques library and the Clarius T4 Editor . Nice one Scott. Scott also notes that Rob is using it to create a nice repository over a DB for his SubSonic project. And of course, its always worth another namecheck...

Graham from Gnomz Software pinged to mention his company's DSL-based viewpoint business modeling system. Check it out: Technorati Tags: DSL Tools , VSX , Visual Studio Extensibility

James has just posted a few of the session abstracts for our spiffy VSX Developer Conference to be held in Redmond, WA this September. Much VSX and DSL goodness and a chance to bug the team about what you want us to be creating next. Take a look and get yourself registered. Technorati Tags: VSX , Visual...

And here's a couple more folks with VSX/DSL related blog series that I missed from my previous post: Long-time DSL-er (and recent MSFT hire) Andre Furtado has a series of DSL posts indexed under DSL Tools: how to resources Sebastian Talamoni has a bunch of DSL posts including some funky property grid...

Just lately there seems to be a veritable feast of new blog stuff about VSX (if you don't mind me switching metaphors). Some of these I stumbled across and some were pointed up to me by DuncanP. Oleg Sych now has a great series of T4 posts An explanatory series A series of patterns of T4 template design...

Somewhat belatedly, I wanted to welcome the latest addition to the Visual Studio eXtensibility team . Jean-Marc Prieur has been a long-time contributor to our community and now he's joined the team. I'm sure he'll have a huge impact with his passion for extending all things Visual Studio. Welcome on...

Josef Eissing and Marcel Binot just dropped me a note to say that they'd released a CTP of their new DSL for working with Rocky Lhotka's popular CSLA application framework . Having played Killer Bunnies with Rocky one time, I thought I'd better give it a mention. You can find more detail at http://www...