Is there any good resources for T4 (Text Templating framework from Microsoft)?

Question

Anything would be good. Exemples, best practices, samples, etc.

Answer 1

Hanselman just blogged on this yesterday, he has a huge list of links:

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/T4TextTemplateTransformationToolkitCodeGenerationBestKeptVisualStudioSecret.aspx

Answer 2

The Hanselman post links to this, but just in case: Rob Conery also just recently blogged on this and as usual, it's excellent: http://blog.wekeroad.com/blog/make-visual-studio-generate-your-repository/

Answer 3

For my money, the definitive source of good quality information on T4 can be found at http://www.olegsych.com/

With the basics beginning here -> http://www.olegsych.com/2007/12/text-template-transformation-toolkit/

Answer 4

I find Clarius's T4 Editor really helpful. It adds syntax highlighting, IntelliSense, and project items for T4 to Visual Studio. There are also demo videos on the website. There is a free Community edition, and an enhanced, non-free edition which also does C# syntax highlighting.

Answer 5

Also make sure to check out the "T4 Templates" course delivered by pluralsight. It covers the following topics:

• Introduction to T4
• T4 Building Blocks
• Extended T4
• Real-world examples
• Troubleshooting and debugging

Answer 6

It seems there is also another T4 Editor by Tangible that seems more than just a T4 Editor but also includes some modeling tools.