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...

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...

Kalle over at abstractiondev has a nice series of videos getting started with T4 and developing a rich set of metadata to drive systematic generation. http://abstractiondev.wordpress.com/demo-videos/ He’s also not afraid to promote his ideas with conviction...

In among all the excitement of new ALM features like integrated Code Review and MyWork to manage your daily workflow in the developer preview, there are, of course, a few nice new features for T4. First of all, a naming change that’s underway.  We...

  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...

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...

Hi, my name is Mårten; I am a part of the T4 team. A couple of years ago, a friend of mine introduced me to T4. That event has transformed my way of thinking about programming more than anything else. Using T4, which is a code-generation tool, I...

You might have noticed in the recent storm of Web Tools releases that there’s a groovy new kid on the template engine block – Razor . A few customers have been asking folks on both teams some questions around this, such as the following. Why do you have...

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...

Welcome to the official Text Template Transformation Toolkit (T4) team blog. T4 is a flexible code generation tool that can reduce development time and maintenance cost. T4 is easy to adopt in any project and in any stage of product development. ...