Manuel shows a great way how to generate a state machine from the build-in class diagram in VS 2010 RTM using T4 Templates. I highly recommend reading his article here and get the UML Profile for State Diagrams for VS2010 and the T4 template from his blog. Manuel’s Article: http://halllo-welt.spaces...

Speedy development – awesome design. With no code changes between Beta1 and Beta 2 the tangible T4 Editor in its current alpha bits form brings light to “.tt” files in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 right from the start. Go get it from the extension manager to start customizing code generation and wizrards...

I want to share my personal view on Oslo with you. It's personal as it might not fully be aligned with the official Microsoft Message. I will first look at Oslo repository and associated tools to interact with models stored in the repository. 1. Repository to store metadata (referred to as Model) I have...

GAT/GAX toolkit has been using property directive in Text Templates like this. <#@ template language = " C# " #> <#@ output extension = " .cs " #> <#@ property processor = " PropertyProcessor " name = " ClassName " type = " System.String " #> <#@ property processor = " PropertyProcessor...

As Jean Marc and Oleg pointed out T4 is getting more attention now. Tangible Engineering did now post new T4 How Do I Videos and released another great T4 editor V1.3 that comes with an Online T4 Template Gallery , intellisense and syntax-highlihting and uml-style diagrams in its free edition... Check...