ASP.NET MVC custom T4 templates for views

Question

When I'm adding a new strongly-typed view to an ASP.NET MVC project, I can select between different view content templates (Create Details, Edit, List). I have read these are templates based on the Visual Studio T4 code generation engine.

How can I author and configure my own templates and let them appear in the available templates when adding a new view?

Answer 1

good starting point

Another one

Answer 2

You might want to take a look at David Hayden's site: http://www.pnpguidance.net/Tag/T4.aspx -- He offers several screencasts on T4 and MVC that got me started. Also take a look at the T4 toolbox: (www.codeplex.com/t4toolbox). This provides additonal helpers for T4 templates.

Answer 3

Create following folder structure:

{YourMVCProject}\CodeTemplates\AddView

Put your custom T4 templates (*.tt) in this folder. You will see the magic!