ArcSig Meeting Microsoft Ft. Lauderdale 04/21/2009
Oleg Sych presented a great session about Code Generation with T4 and Visual Studio.
Oleg Sych introduced the Template Transformation Toolkit (T4) - one of the best-hidden new features of Visual Studio 2008. T4 allows you to use simple ASP.NET-like template syntax to generate application source code, configuration files, stored procedures and more. This session provided an overview of code generation, describes T4 template syntax and shows how to create a template for generating CRUD stored procedures.
Oleg is a Senior Lead Consultant for http://www.catapultsystems.com . He has been working as a professional software engineer since 1993, building distributed enterprise applications since 2000 and working with .NET technologies since 2002. Oleg holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science, MCSD and MCPD Enterprise certifications. His professional interests include framework design and enterprise application architecture. In his spare time, Oleg writes and speaks about code generation. Check out his blog at http://www.olegsych.com for in-depth coverage of Text Templates in Visual Studio.
Thank you very much Oleg, for coming all the way from Tampa for this presentation!
Posted: Rainer Habermann