7 blog posts tagged T4
Multiple outputs from T4 made easy: revisited
My multiple outputs from t4 made easy post contained a class making it easy to produce multiple files from Visual Studio’s text templating engine (T4).
LINQ to SQL resources
A quick round-up of some useful LINQ to SQL related resources that are available for developers. I’ve not used everything on this list myself so don’t take this as personal endorsement.
Multiple outputs from T4 made easy
A reusable Manager helper class for T4 templates that lets you split generated output into a file per block, for example one file per entity, with shared header and footer support.
LINQ to SQL templates updated, now on CodePlex
My templates that allow you to customize the LINQ to SQL code-generation process (normally performed by SQLMetal/LINQ to SQL classes designer) have been updated once again.
LINQ to SQL template for Visual Studio 2008
Detailed reference for my T4-based LINQ to SQL template — a customisable, designer-compatible replacement for SQLMetal supporting inheritance, VB.NET, composite keys, and stored procedure CRUD with concurrency.
LINQ to SQL T4 template reloaded
The topic of modifying the code generation phase of LINQ to SQL comes up often and the limited T4 template I published here last month was good at showing the potential but wasn’t a practical replacement for the code generation phase.
Experimental LINQ to SQL template
A 369-line T4 template that generates a LINQ to SQL DataContext and entity classes from a SQL Server schema, offered as a proof-of-concept alternative to the un-customisable SQLMetal tool.