T4 Templates

Summary

T4 stands for "Text Template Transformation Toolkit" and, simply put, is code generation inside Visual Studio. It's very easy to work with if you're familiar with scripting ASP.NET pages - except that it works with a syntax rather than . Another thing to remember is that you're working with Visual Studio - not your project. The templates run in a completely different AppDomain - so you can't use your project's configuration without doing a little gymnastics. To get you started, I made a screencast - complete with some music from Rush: t4.flv

= Troubleshooting =

Having trouble with your t4 templates? Have a look at the to see the most common causes.