cool, the expiration message goes away this time, it finally works again. changed to 4 stars. 5 if the ancient ugly indent problem can get fixed. that issue has been there since last century. i truly hope some day it gets fixed.
Intellisense worked great, better than tangible's it seems which treats many things just as "object", but the big problem I had was that it would put new lines way off to the right with a huge indention for no reason at all. Also, it would incorrectly change the types of the .tt files and cause namespace errors. I had to uninstall it because of the indent thing and the errors. Fix those bugs and I'll happily reinstall this.
Do not care the existing bugs. It is pretty useful right now so you should start making money on this. It would motivate you to fix more things for sure.
Does everything very well EXCEPT... I'd be typing along in a code section, hit the enter key, and I'd be 20 tabs out in the middle of nowhere on the next line. It was so jarring I ultimately had to uninstall it, once I determined there was no "feature" I could disable to prevent this.
The intellisense is fantastic, if it wasn't for that bug I'd still be using it, but that bug was a dealbreaker for me. Hope they fix that soon.
Hi, I have a problem with indenting. Might be the editor or might be an interaction with the various VS2010 PowerTool extension. Seems to have intended my tt file hugely over to the right, and does this with Summary, where s is a space - as text it trimmed when posting here
Really useful, good integration into Visual Studio and compatibility with other extensions (e.g. Quick Find extension in the Productivity Power Tools) and supports custom colors.
Could use class and member combos above editor and collapsible regions for methods, classes and etc.
Sometimes produces exceptions on huge T4 files, but if you ignore them everything seems to work (doesn't crash anything).
A major minus is sometimes the auto-indent goes crazy. - Workaround: using Ctrl+Z.
@rjcox: this bug was fixed in latest build which is now available for download, please update the extension and give it a try!
@Joe Mati: Adding assembly references to your project is not ideal but it won't hurt at all as C# compiler is smart enough to not link these references if you're not using them at all in your code.
we're currently supporting only C#, this wasn't designed neither tested against Script# or other language, sorry.
Color of the output text: I'm not sure what you mean here. VS itself will do coloring of the output file and that will depend on which file extension you're using in your template.
While the idea of using the C# intellisense of Vs might be nice it forces me to add references to my project which should not be the case. In addition it screws up as soons as i use a project type that uses different compiler such as Script# and it screws up as soon as i have dlls in my project that have similar name but different mehtods: e.g. Silverlight mscorlib, FSharp etc, Test Projects.... In addition sometimes i get unwanted empty lines. Furthermore i do not see any coloring of the output text.
For me this feels like a fixed C# Compiler Window used for T4. Not much more. But honestly if i want to write a lot T4 i can use C# DLL and reference it.
It seems many others have reported this problem (the problem with excessive indention on new lines.) Has development on this extension stopped, or should we be expecting a fix eventually?
This is the message I get:
The Preview Version of Visual T4 is expired. Please download an updated version from the Extension Manager dialog or the Visual Studio Gallery.
Hi Anil, there was an error updating the latest bits, which should be fixed now. Please try to update using Extension Manager or download from the gallery and it should work now. New updated version is 1.0.41231.0. Sorry for the glitch! Thanks.
Hi guys, sorry for this. Our updated bits took a bit longer than usual to get uplodaed. You should check now and found an updated beta with an extended expiration date so you can continue to use these bits. Thanks!
Just updated.
The Identation bug which makes it pretty much useless is still there :(
It happens whenever you hit enter inside a method.
Please, is there any chance you can fix this? :)
Hello,
very nice editor - thanks :)
But I have one serious problem when inside a method in a class feature statement (<#+ #>).
Whenever i hit enter it keeps moving the cursor far to the right (identation of 30 tabs).
it indent cursor after i press "enter" to about 600 characters when i include this file (renamed to *.tt): http://code.google.com/p/bl-toolkit/source/browse/trunk/Source/Templates/BLToolkit.ttinclude?r=1074
Hello,
Is there a possiblity to enable the "T4 Visual" capabilities inside an instance of the experimental version of Visual Studio, which is created after the built of a project and a debugging session is launched.
Thanks
@профф: thanks for reporting this issue, I'll ask the team to take a look
@Fox M: after installing Visual T4 you will find it copied to a folder similar to this one:
C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Extensions\Clarius Consulting\Visual T4\1.0.40512.0
In order to have it working in the experimental instance of VS you will need to:
1) Copy it to: C:\Users\vga\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0Exp\Extensions\Clarius Consulting\Visual T4\1.0.40512.0 (note the added "Exp" in the path)
2) Go to Tools->Extension Manager and manually enable the Visual T4 extension
Do you have any idea when this issue will be addressed? It's pretty strange that including a particular file can bork the editor. It makes the editor nearly useless for me. My primary use for T4 is with BLToolkit.
I downloaded this 05/30/2011 beta and now no there's syntax highlighting! I would be willing to purchase this product at a reasonable price if you would provide a working link please. Or at least could you provide a link to the last working version?
Thanks
Hi T. Webster,
We've received other reports about issues with the latest uploaded version (05.30.2011) and we're already investigating -- I'll post an update here no later than today.
This is currently a beta build and we have (yet) a final version to offer you to buy. We will have one eventually when a final build is ready at which time we will probably do the same we did with our T4 Editor for VS 2008, which is offer a free Community edition and a Pro paid one with more features.
Hi again T. Webster, can you please try now to update to the latest build (we just uploaded 40601)? This fixed upgrading issues we've been seeing since this morning and should fix them for you too. Thanks for posting this and if you have any additional feedback on bugs/feature request that you would like to see in the final bits please don't hesitate to post them here or contact me at vga AT clariusconsulting DOT net. Thanks!
Hi vga/Clarius, I have just gotten the latest 1.0.40601.0 and installed it into VS 2010. It now appears to be working well on Windows 7 (although I'm at home and on a different machine). I'll test it on Windows XP tomorrow.
Good work with making the Intellisense pick up on extension methods within the .tt file, or inherited members from the TextTransformation base classes. I
I've just installed it on my Windows XP machine and it is also working. Nice work also with:
-the Intellisense picks up my code snippets in the T4 editor,
-supports "go to definition",
-I like how static text is not syntax highlighted, distinguishing it from the code the T4 template actually will execute.
I'll e-mail you any suggestions if I have any.
Hi everyone!
Please make sure you update to latest bits posted today (5/30/2011) if you want to continue dogfooding Visual T4 beta bits as this build includes an extended beta expiration date.
Thanks for all your feedback sumitted so far and please keep it coming!!
UPDATE: Sorry everyone, we detected a few issues when upgrading to the build posted yesterday (5/30/2011) and have just uploaded a new build (6/01/2011) that fixes this. Please make sure you're running this latest version. Thanks!
Please download the latest bits which include several bug fixes including one for the annoying "Build Action" left to "Compile" bug which is now gone!
Your feedback is very welcomed as usual!
