T4 Editor: some teasing pictures!

We're receiving emails everyday asking us about the status of the T4 Editor. The news is we're still working on it and we're making some great progress!

Just so you can check the wait is being worth it, I'm posting here a few screenshots that showcase the main feature we're working on, which is full support for embedded code blocks, that is, the same great support you get today from the ASP.NET editor when embedding C# or VB code.

Enjoy!

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Published Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:16 AM by vga

Comments

# re: T4 Editor: some teasing pictures!

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 4:16 AM by Sebastian Talamoni

Victor, Congratulations, Great work!!

This re-opens my research project of using DSL+t4 editor for our template system.

One question : What I still don't understand clearly is the licensing : is it a commercial product, will be part of future DSL SDK?

# T4 Editor: coming soon!

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 9:18 AM by Jose Escrich

Since some time ago, we're working in a new release of the T4 Editor . Maybe one of the most interesting

# re: T4 Editor: some teasing pictures!

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:09 PM by kirchi

Looks fantastic!

Will the source code be available ? :P

It's very interesting how editor like this can be created.

Intellisense, colors etc, just great work.

Thanks.

# VSX Community Letter for April 2008

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:51 PM by VSX Team Blog

This month's letter includes a summary of what our plans are for upcoming new versions of the VS SDK,

# re: T4 Editor: some teasing pictures!

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 5:33 PM by PeteGoo

Looking good.

Will it support the C#v3.5 language syntax?

# re: T4 Editor: some teasing pictures!

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 6:23 PM by vga

PeteGoo: we haven't done much testing yet on C#v3.5 but as we're reusing the C# language service functionallity I would say that yes you will get support for it.

Kirchi: Nope, we don't plan to release source code for this, sorry! :)

Sebastian: this isn't part of the VS SDK and it's not from Microsoft -- it's from Clarius and will be a commercial product (we're also considering having a 'community' -read free- version too).

# re: T4 Editor: some teasing pictures!

Thursday, April 24, 2008 5:51 PM by Jordan

If possible, can the community edition license not require open source or non-commercial uses?  Perhaps like a standard edition that's free, but a professional version that you charge for?

Is that something that is possible?  I'd like to get all of my clients to switch from the last freeware version of CodeSmith over to the T4 engine using some version of the T4 editor.

Thanks!

# re: T4 Editor: some teasing pictures!

Thursday, June 19, 2008 5:37 AM by Dejan

How will the editor behave (intelliSense-wise) when we want to use some custom type defined in an assembly that is not a part of .NET framework and is not located in GAC, but will be present in the folder the template will be executed in?

Will we be able to select this execution path? Import assemblies into the editor directly?

# re: T4 Editor: some teasing pictures!

Friday, August 29, 2008 1:03 AM by vga

Jordan: Yes, we'll have a Community license for free not requiring this. Ping me in private if you need any help with porting to T4.

Dejan: The editor can pick up and use any assembly as long as it is referenced by your project, this is the same behavior you get with the C# editor today. So if you have your own assembly with your own custom types just reference it (file or project reference, both will work) and you will be able to access the types in the C# code blocks.

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