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6 blog posts tagged T4

Glowing database cylinder surrounded by documents and data streams
Development8 minutes

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).

Glowing database cylinder surrounded by documents and data streams
Development4 minutes

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.

Code editor beside a diagram of connected services and databases
Development6 minutes

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.

Glowing database cylinder surrounded by documents and data streams
Development1 minutes

LINQ to SQL templates updated, now on CodePlex

My templates that allow you to customise the LINQ to SQL code-generation process (normally performed by SQLMetal/LINQ to SQL classes designer) have been updated once again.

Glowing database cylinder surrounded by documents and data streams
Development5 minutes

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.

Glowing database cylinder surrounded by documents and data streams
Development2 minutes

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.