POCO and Unity Application Block Part II

randypatterson.com — In this post, Randy Patterson shows how to use property injection in Unity application block with plain CLR objects using programmatic and XML-based configuration. read more...

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Creating reusable code generation templates

olegsych.com — This article is a part of a series that introduces code generation using C# and Text Templates (also known as T4 Templates) in Visual Studio; explains how to create reusable templates and combine them in complex code generators. read more...

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Troubleshooting Code Generation Errors

olegsych.com — This article is a part of a series that introduces code generation using C# and Text Templates (also known as T4 Templates) in Visual Studio; explains how to create reusable templates and combine them in complex code generators. read more...

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Extending T4: <#@ xsd #> directive

olegsych.com — This article describes a custom T4 directive processor for converting XML schema definitions into .NET classes, which allows using strongly-typed code to extract information from various XML files. In particular, this simplifies creating custom T4 code generation templates for LINQ to SQL .dbml files and ADO.NET Entity Framework .edmx files. The article includes links to ready to use xsd directive processor and sample source code. read more...

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T4 template for generating SQL view from C# enumeration

olegsych.com — Database tables often contain columns that store “codes”, or values with special meaning. In application code, these special values can be encapsulated as enumerations. This article demonstrates how to use T4 code generation templates and Visual Studio CodeModel API to generate SQL views that encapsulate the special values for use in SQL code. read more...

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T4 Architecture

olegsych.com — This article provides an in-depth look at the architecture of T4 template transformation process, discusses some constraints that limit template design, describes techniques that can be used to work around these limitations and points out some (sometimes undocumented) mechanisms for making your T4 templates more powerful. read more...

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How to generate multiple outputs from single T4 template

olegsych.com — For some code generation tasks, like generating SELECT stored procedures based on indexes of a given database table, number of output artifacts may not be known upfront. Because T4 was designed to generate a single output file from one template file, developers are forced to generate multiple code artifacts in the same source file. This conflicts with the widely used practice of using one source file per code artifact. This article demonstrates how to work around this limitation of T4, generate multiple files from a single template and automatically add them to a Visual Studio project. read more...

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How to use T4 to generate strongly-typed navication class in ASP.NET

blog.devarchive.net — In this article Kirill Chilingarashvili demonstrates how to use a T4 template to generate a navigation class in ASP.NET. This class contains nested classes that represent folders and string constants that represent users control (.ascx) files in the application. Using such navigation class helps to avoid hardcoding file paths as string literals and because it is automatically generated there is no need to maintain string constants manually. read more...

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