September 2009 - Posts

DTE and T4 - Better Together

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 Read More...

Posted 25 September 09 07:27 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
Filed under Tech thrills, Enterprise Development, Community, T4

T4 and Silverlight in Visual Studio 2008

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 Read More...

Posted 25 September 09 06:32 by GarethJ | 2 Comments   
Filed under Enterprise Development, Community, T4

ASP.Net MVC T4 Updates

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 Read More...

Posted 25 September 09 06:13 by GarethJ | 0 Comments   
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Peter Vogel on Code Generation

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 Read More...

Posted 25 September 09 06:06 by GarethJ | 0 Comments   
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T4 Templates for SharePoint

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 Read More...

Posted 25 September 09 04:56 by GarethJ | 0 Comments   
Filed under Enterprise Development, Community, T4

WPF, DSL in Visual Studio 2008

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 Read More...

Posted 24 September 09 03:07 by GarethJ | 0 Comments   
Filed under Modeling, Code samples, DSL Tools, VSX, Community

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