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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   
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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   
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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   
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Tangible T4 Editor

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 Read More...

Posted 23 May 09 06:30 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
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Clarius take T4 editing to the next level

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 Read More...

Posted 04 February 09 10:23 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
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New DSL Tools lab

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 Read More...

Posted 11 November 08 08:51 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
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Using extension methods in T4 templates

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 Read More...

Posted 30 October 08 12:54 by GarethJ | 4 Comments   
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Another collection of T4 resources

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 Read More...

Posted 23 October 08 06:41 by GarethJ | 2 Comments   
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New DSL Screencasts avaialble from VSX Conference

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 Read More...

Posted 21 October 08 08:15 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
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Hanselman gives T4 some love.

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. Read More...

Posted 14 October 08 10:00 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
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A rash of bloggers

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 Read More...

Posted 14 May 08 05:33 by GarethJ | 2 Comments   
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DSL on the Mersey

Paul Kinlan dropped me a line about a talk he's doing on DSL and T4 at the upcoming Liverpool .Net User Group . Find more event details here . Read More...

Posted 07 April 08 09:19 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
Filed under Modeling, The real world, DSL Tools, Community, T4

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