Chapter 8. Other Tools: Templates, Attributes, and Custom Tools
The tools covered so far have been dedicated to supporting Visual Studio or generating/modifying code. However, three more tools, more general purpose in nature, should also be part of your code-generation toolkit: templates, attributes, and custom tools.
Templates are useful because on many occasions the code you add to a solution is boilerplate: The code is virtually identical from one solution to another. Even when a solution’s detailed code is different for every generation, the overall structure of the solution usually doesn’t change. For instance, the code in the ...
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