Contents tagged with T4
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T4 Editor RTM is finally out!
After several months of work I'm really happy to announce that we've finally shipped the T4 Editor RTM version. Now it comes in different flavors as a Community Edition and a Professional Edition. You can check the most important difference between those version here.
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T4 Editor: coming soon!
Since some time ago, we're working in a new release of the T4 Editor. Maybe one of the most interesting feature is the ability to have intellisense in the contained language. Victor has posted some screenshots that showcases that feature, check it out here.
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Testing T4 templates using mock framework (MoQ)
Some time ago I wrote a post in which I talk about how you can do unit tests over your text templates using the GAX Host. In that example I used a very simple template which receives just a couple of string properties. But it becomes more complicated when you have properties which are complex types ok I know, most probably you're thinking that can resolve that just creating your own mock objects and you're right.
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Visual Studio T4 Editor is finally out!.
Today we released a new version of the T4 Editor.
You didn't heard about T4 templates or Text Transformations, before?, That's a technology made by P&P and was used by the DSL Tools team to able to run text transformations in its projects. Now the T4 template bits will be available for free as a part of the VS Orcas, so you would be run your own transformations in your projects for free. For example a common case is the artifacts generation from a database.
Some of the features of the new T4 Editor:
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- Available for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 (Orcas B2)
- Colorization of directives, text blocks and code.
- Intellisense on directives and attribute values.
- Support for multiples host (GAX, DSLTools and a new Clarius one)
- Preview transformation and properties reflection.