Anatomy of the T4 Text Template

Visual Studio 2010 uses T4 text templates for code generation and within this blog post we’ll examine the anatomy of a text template and see how easily code and other text can be generated.Let’s take a look at an example in Visual Studio, we’ll create a new Visual C# empty project and add two new text templates files, one named AdventureWorks.tt and the other named SqlServerSmo.tt. You can find