Mårten Rånge Takes Advantage of Templates

.NET Rocks!

• Episode: Mårten Rånge Takes Advantage of Templates
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• Duration: 00:56:00
• Published: 2013-04-30 06:00

Carl and Richard talk to Mårten Rånge about Microsoft's Text Template Transformation Toolkit (T4). Don't call it code generation - Mårten talks about how T4 takes away code repetition and keeps you focused on the important stuff. The challenge is learning to build your own maintainable templates. The conversation explores a variety of examples of using T4 effectively for SQL, XAML as well as C# and C++. Mårten has a project on GitHub called T4Include to help you utilize them more effectively. The tooling isn't perfect, but there are alternatives - check it out!