Greg, I love T4 as well. A Massive part of my project is build around very custom T4 code generation that was all nicely coded to output very good, reliable and repeable bits of code that helps us mostly around some complex serializations. It would be great it VS would include a nice T4 editor by default as the Tangible T4 editor kills my VS every time I try to load it due maybe to the large number of objects we have. Apparently there are few other editors for T4 these days. I might try them again.
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > I gave up on T4 in frustration a long time ago. We use CodeSmith - we find >> it easy to use and quick to get things done. Having read this, might look >> at T4 again now and see if it's improved. >> > > I'm actually a licensed owner of CodeSmith 5.2, which I purchased a few > years ago so I could use it with netTiers. However, all of the fancy bells > and whistles and advanced features that came with it were of absolutely no > interest to me. I have never used CodeSmith for anything (except it being > the silent clockwork behind netTiers). For a start, I hated having yet > another dependency on a 3rd party tool, then I would have to learn how it > integrates with Visual Studio (I assume it does!), then learn its quirks, > etc. I prefer TT files simply because they are built-in and just work. > > I don't think T4 has improved much in recent years, it's still the same > basic tool. > > Greg K >
