The Text Templating Transformation Toolkit (better known as T4) is a text transformation technology developed by Microsoft and used mostly for code generation by several Microsoft products.
The T4 Engine that is used for supporting text transformations is built into Visual Studio 2008 and a redistributable is available for Visual Studio 2005 users to install it.
T4 Toolbox extends the code generation functionality of the T4 text templates in Visual Studio and allows you to: Generate multiple output files from a single text template Automatically add output files to one or more projects and folders Automatically add or check-out generated files from source control. Thank you for installing tangible T4 Editor and modeling tools for Visual Studio 2017! In addition to a great T4 editing and debugging experience, tangible modeling tools enable you to directly create Software Diagrams. Author code-generators that generate from models, xml, databases. Tangible T4 Editor 2.5.0 plus modeling tools for Visual Studio 2019. Download from Visual Studio Gallery (7.7.2019) tangible T4 Editor 2.4.0 plus modeling tools for Visual Studio 2017. Download from Visual Studio Gallery (18.4.2017) tangible T4 Editor 2.3.0 plus modeling tools for Visual Studio 2015. Download from Visual Studio Gallery. I just downloaded Devart T4 Editor. It seems to work okay, and allows you to customize the syntax colors, as well as provides intellisense. At this time, it's available for every version of Visual Studio from 2008 to 2017. My only complaint so far is that it doesn't have an option for highlighting C# operators (e.g., +, etc), or numbers. Microsoft T4 looks and smells like ASP.NET - it is simple! T4 is used in ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework and DSL Tools. The Microsoft T4 Generation Engine is already built into Visual Studio, however Visual Studio does not provide an Code-Editor for it. That is why we created the tangible T4 Editor for Visual Studio.
Unfortunately, the design-time experience when using T4 is not yet on a par compared with what you are used to expect from other tools integrated within Visual Studio.
The T4 Editor developed by Clarius Consulting is aimed at converting this missing experience into a first class one, fully integrated into the development environment, offering you support for colorization of the different T4 template parts, IntelliSense, and design-time preview of your templates, among other features.
Our T4 Editor is currently supported under both Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 products.
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tangible T4 Editor V2.5.0 plus modelling tools for Visual Studio 2019
Visual Studio T4 Templates
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Quickly write your own .NET Code Generator via T4 Text-Templates (.tt-Files) with Intelli-Sense & Syntax-Highlighting. tangible T4 Editor comes with UML-Style modeling tools and can generate from diagrams, database schemas, xml, word, excel sources, or any other data source. Microsoft T4 looks and smells like ASP.NET - it is simple! T4 is used in ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework and DSL Tools. The Microsoft T4 Generation Engine is already built into Visual Studio, however Visual Studio does not provide an Code-Editor for it. That is why we created the tangible T4 Editor for Visual Studio. You can now accelerate your projects by adopting Microsoft T4 today and generate the code you need directly from diagrams, database schemas, xml files or other sources - Write less, achieve more.
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