Subsonic 3 alpha and Visual Web Developer 2008: problem with t4 templates

Question

I use VWD 2008 Express on Windows 7 beta. When I add Subsonic 3 templates to my MVC RC project, Web Developer Express doesn't generate classes based on them. Connection string is correct. Do you have any ideas?

Answer 1

That's because T4 templates require Visual Studio Standard edition or higher.

There are some workarounds that some people have been trying out by using the command line tool for generating the code, but I haven't seen one that actually works with Subsonic 3. See this answer for more information.