T4 Templates
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T4 is a text templating engine that is used to generate source code and other text-based artifacts from templates. It is a core feature of Visual Studio but requires additional third party tooling for a full-featured experience. Alternatives to T4 include CodeDOM, CodeSmith, and NVelocity, each with their own advantages and disadvantages for different scenarios. Learning T4 involves using the free tools from Tangible and the T4 Toolkit as well as searching online documentation and tutorials.
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T4 Templates
- 1. T4
- 2. OvertureLevel 01-01-02InteractiveOn the MenuWhat it is?DemoAlternativesLearning’s
- 3. T4 is NOT and of theseYou may feel like Skynet was built with T4 sometimes
- 4. TLAWhat does T4 stand for?Text Template Transformation ToolkitThree Two Letter Acronym
- 5. Why do we need it?Cause developers are expensive and Xbox games are fun
- 6. HistorySomething is missing here…
- 7. A word of warning…Out of the box tooling DOES NOT EXISTIt’s notepad + command line basically3rd parties can make the pain go awayI use the free stuff from Tangible & T4 ToolboxYou will too, accept that and move on
- 8. Is this thing used?ASP.MVC uses T4 templates for views and controllersDSL tools in VS 2010 use itBizTalkArchitecture Tools3rd Party uses like LINQ to SQL replacement
- 9. High Level PlanXAMLCSVTemplateCodeOutputT4 toolkit.NET FrameworkC#HTMLVB
- 10. Demoslike the moon landing Demos take lots of preparation, learning new skills and mostly faking it
- 11. What haven’t you seen?Build integrationPre-processed Templates
- 12. AlternativesCodeDOMPart of .NETUsed internally by T4More powerfulHarder to learnIdeally for language scenarios
- 13. AlternativesCodeSmithThird Party$$$More rugged tooling, debugging features
- 14. AlternativesNVelocityPort of Java’s Jakata VelocityFreeWildly different syntax
- 15. AlternativesHire a monkeyMaybe this is why you were hired…
- 16. Help?
- 17. Learning'sSearch for T4AND Visual Studio Text Template Use the Tangible T4 editorUse the T4 ToolkitMake use of scratch applications in prototypingFor use within Visual Studio