Chapter 25. Customizing Visual Studio for ASP.NET MVC
This chapter covers
- Creating custom T4 templates
- Using custom T4 templates
- Exporting a custom test project template
- Adding custom test project templates
Tooling within Visual Studio can make building ASP.NET MVC applications faster. Any task that we perform over and over is a candidate for automation and tooling. A computer can perform a task faster and with more accuracy than a human can, especially when the task is performed repeatedly. We’ll look at two quick ways of customizing these tools, specifically the controller, view, and project generators.
25.1. Creating custom T4 templates
T4 (Text Template Transformation Toolkit) is a little-known feature of Visual Studio. It’s a code-generation ...
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