T4 Toolbox

UPDATE: T4 Toolbox for Visual Studio 2012 is now available on Visual Studio Gallery.

T4 Toolbox is a set of ready-to-use code generators and T4 extensions for Visual Studio. Quickly build powerful C# or VB templates that generate multiple output files or simply use existing templates for LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework and more.

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Who is it for?
What does it do?

Ready-to-use code generators

• Enum SQL View
• AzMan wrapper
• LINQ to SQL classes
• LINQ to SQL schema
• Entity Framework DAL

Features

• Automatic Template Transformation
• Generation of scaffolding code
• xsd custom directive
• VolatileAssembly custom directive

You will need

• Visual Studio 2008 or 2010, standard or higher edition.
• Either C# or Visual Basic
• T4 Editor by Tangible Engineering, free or pro edition.

Tutorial

• Creating your first code generator
• Troubleshooting code generation errors
• Debugging code generation files
• Creating reusable code generation templates
• Creating complex code generators
• Reusing code generators on multiple projects
• Handling errors in code generators
• Unit testing code generators
• Making code generators extensible
• Generating code from DSL models
• Integrating generated files in Visual Studio projects

Development

• Getting and compiling T4 Toolbox source code