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Introducing .NET 4.0: with Visual Studio 2010
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Introducing .NET 4.0: with Visual Studio 2010

by Alex Mackey
February 2010
Beginner
400 pages
11h 13m
English
Apress
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2.2. Text Template Transformation Toolkit Files

A Text Template Transformation Toolkit (T4) template is a code-generation language that has been around since VS2005. You should be aware of T4 templates, as they are used in areas such as Entity Framework and ASP.NET MVC, and can be useful for your own development. To see T4 templates in action, create a file with the extension .tt, add some text content, save the file, and note how Visual Studio will generate a code file from the template. You can apply complex logic using T4 templating language to change the output that is generated depending on various conditions.

T4 templates in VS2010 are compiled when they are saved (preprocessed). This means that they are another type that can be instantiated. ...

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