You can use a plugin like Eclipse Dali to do the trick for you. You can refer to the documentation, section 3.11 Generating Entities from Tables. I do not know of any specific vendor independent tool to do this, though.
You mean like this: <#+ public List<string> Dostuff() { List<string> result = new List<string>(); // … return result; } #> Here’s a complete example: Reading a Xml File in T4 Templates Oleg Sych’s T4Toolbox is a good resource.
You should have everything you need in your ruby/bin directory. On my (WinXP, Ruby 1.8.6) system, I have ruby/bin/erb.bat erb.bat [switches] [inputfile] -x print ruby script -n print ruby script with line number -v enable verbose mode -d set $DEBUG to true -r [library] load a library -K [kcode] specify KANJI code-set -S [safe_level] set … Read more
Actually the T4 templates in EF 4.0 were designed with this scenario in mind 🙂 There are 2 templates: One for the Entities themselves (i.e. ModelName.tt) One for the ObjectContext (i.e. ModelName.Context.tt) You should put the ModelName.tt file in you POCO project, and just change the template to point to the EDMX file in the … Read more
Add -S switch to your command line. Edit: Do not forget that it will place the assembly to the files you specified under -o switch.
how do I tag Eric Lippert? If you have something you want brought to my attention you can use the “contact” link on my blog. I’m still utterly confused why the C# compiler bothers to check for collisions between namespaces and types in contexts where it makes no sense for a namespace to exist. Indeed, … Read more
There is an interesting Visual Studio extension that addresses this; the Object Exporter. It allows serialization of an in-memory object into C# Object initialization code, JSON and XML. I haven’t tried it yet but looks intriguing; will update after trying it out.
See The Host Specific Parameter section HERE. This snippet shows how to get the full path of src relative to the template. <#@ template hostspecific=”true” #> // The location of the src folder relative to the t4 template: // <#= Host.ResolvePath(“src”) #>
Source Generators must be .NET Standard 2.0 to run in Visual Studio 2019+ or .NET Standard 1.x to run in Visual Studio 2017+.
I think the key points about CodeDOM and Reflection.Emit are following: CodeDom generates C# source code and is usually used when generating code to be included as part of a solution and compiled in the IDE (for example, LINQ to SQL classes, WSDL, XSD all work this way). In this scenario you can also use … Read more