I’m a bit quicker off the mark than I was with our Beta as this is my first day back from vacation after our Release Candidate has launched .  We have one final significant T4 feature to add for Visual Studio 2012 in addition to all of the stuff from out beta and developer previews , and it’s a...

Our beta release has been available for a couple of weeks now, so I thought it was about time I updated folks on what’s new for T4 . Everything below is in addition to the features and changes I noted in my previous post, What’s new with T4 in the Developer Preview of Visual Studio 11? OK, here goes...

  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...

Some of you may have noticed that we’ve launched a new T4 official blog over at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/t4 . We wanted a single place to consolidate information about T4, whether it be from my team that produces the core T4 engine or the teams within Microsoft that build on top and use T4 as their code...

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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 template, DataClass.tt provided the code generation...

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 to show how easy it gets to be to customize a template...

  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 copy the standard template into our project and...

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 other code – because you want reuse and extensibility...

I’m pleased to say that we made a few nice improvements to our T4 text templating engine in Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (you can find the beta here ). Chief among them is resolving an assembly locking issue that more than a few customers have told us has caused them pain. The most typical cases for folks...

  As it’s the Silverlight Firestarter event today, the very cool WCF RIA Services team have released a new version of their toolkit. You can get the general skinny at Jeff Handley’s blog , but the bit that caught my attention was that they have updated their T4 code generator templates. You can...

As Jason Zander and Cameron have announced, we've just released the first Feature Pack for Visual Studio 2010, the Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack. This pack is available to all MSDN subscribers and among a host of other great features, adds T4-based code generation to our UML static class diagrams...