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copied!<p>The T4 templating that comes with Visual Studio 2008 natively or with Visual Studio 2005 SDK, you can pretty much generate anything you want.</p> <p>You can have more info on the following links:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/T4TextTemplateTransformationToolkitCodeGenerationBestKeptVisualStudioSecret.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Scott Hanselman's Blog</a> </li> <li><a href="http://blog.wekeroad.com/blog/make-visual-studio-generate-your-repository/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Rob Conery's Blog</a> </li> <li><a href="http://www.olegsych.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Oleg Sych's Blog</a> which is an entire repository of T4 examples</li> <li><a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/jdanforth/archive/2008/04/23/t4-support-in-vs2008.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Johan Danforth's Blog</a></li> </ul> <p>I'm pretty sure that all those links is a good start to your quest.</p> <p>If you want to generate T4 templates outside of Visual Studio, there is custom MSBuild task to invoke a T4 template (<a href="http://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman/archive/2008/07/25/an-msbuild-task-to-execute-t4-templates.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">link</a>)</p> <p>Here is a sample of the "Execute" code of the MSBuild task. <a href="http://www.sixeyed.com/fileDrop/code/MSBuild/Sixeyed.MSBuild/Sixeyed.MSBuild/Tasks/CodeGen/ExecuteT4Template.cs" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Click here for the source code</a>:</p> <pre><code>public override bool Execute() { bool success = false; //read in the template: string template = File.ReadAllText(this.TemplatePath); //replace tags with property and item group values: ProjectHelper helper = new ProjectHelper(this); template = helper.ResolveProjectItems(template); //copy the template to a temp file: this._tempFilePath = Path.GetTempFileName(); File.WriteAllText(this._tempFilePath, template); //shell out to the exe: ProcessHelper.Run(this, TextTransform.ToolPath, TextTransform.ExeName, string.Format(TextTransform.ArgumentFormat, this.OutputPath, this._tempFilePath)); success = true; return success; } </code></pre>

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