I had very similar issue and I tried with VS2012 and VS2013. After reinstalling Entity Framework 6 Tools for Visual Studio 2012 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=40762 every thing went back to normal.
Found a trick/hack! <#@ output extension=”https://stackoverflow.com/” #> or <#@ output extension=”\\” #> Visual Studio neither outputs the default file nor complains about its inability too much. If you want to avoid warnings, you can also modify output path through the extension: <#@ output extension=”xml/../_” #> The file will still be created and attached to the … Read more
Try ts-morph. Only been working with it for about an hour but it seems really capable. import {Project, Scope, SourceFile} from “ts-morph”; const project = new Project(); const sourceFile = project.createSourceFile(`./target/file.ts`); const classDeclaration = sourceFile.addClass({ name: ‘SomeClass’ }); const constr = classDeclaration.addConstructor({}); constr.setBodyText(‘this.myProp = myProp’); classDeclaration.addProperty({ name: ‘myProp’, type: ‘string’, initializer: ‘hello world!’, scope: Scope.Public … Read more
If you’re using Visual Studio 2010, you can retrieve the namespace by checking the CallContext’s “NamespaceHint” property. System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.CallContext.LogicalGetData(“NamespaceHint”);
<#@ assembly name=”$(ProjectDir)bin\Debug\ProofOfConcept.dll” #> Happy Coding!
I have the Visual Studio SDK installed. Here is where the assembly is physically installed on my system: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SDK\VisualStudioIntegration\Common\Assemblies\Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextTemplating.dll. It does show up in the Add Reference dialog normally.
I wrote a cleanly reverse-engineered implementation of a T4 engine for the MonoDevelop IDE. It’s open-source, licensed under the permissive MIT/X11 license, so you are free to embed the engine in your app or redistribute it. There’s also an implementation of the TextTransform.exe command-line tool available as a dotnet global tool, and some APIs in … Read more
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 could use Scripty. It looks quite nice and fits with the new Analyzers from Roslyn. http://daveaglick.com/posts/announcing-scripty https://github.com/daveaglick/Scripty Since they are dropping the project.json format (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/05/23/changes-to-project-json/) you should be able to use Scripty from the .xproj or .csproj file.
Try the Tangible T4 Editor extension. There’s a free version you can grab to try it out, but if you use them often, it’s worth getting the pro license.