> > I gave up on T4 in frustration a long time ago. We use CodeSmith - we find > it easy to use and quick to get things done. Having read this, might look > at T4 again now and see if it's improved. >
I'm actually a licensed owner of CodeSmith 5.2, which I purchased a few years ago so I could use it with netTiers. However, all of the fancy bells and whistles and advanced features that came with it were of absolutely no interest to me. I have never used CodeSmith for anything (except it being the silent clockwork behind netTiers). For a start, I hated having yet another dependency on a 3rd party tool, then I would have to learn how it integrates with Visual Studio (I assume it does!), then learn its quirks, etc. I prefer TT files simply because they are built-in and just work. I don't think T4 has improved much in recent years, it's still the same basic tool. Greg K
