Rob Blackmore - T4 and How it Can be Used with VS2008 for Code Generation

T4 is the best kept secret in Visual Studio and allows you to use an "ASP" like syntax to generate any code file that you require - be it a class, XAML or anything else! In this session we will look at why you would want to use code generation and explore some simple examples to show the power of T4 and how it can help improve your productivity and code quality.


Rob Blackmore works for AAH in Middlesex as Software Development Manager and is responsible for the development of internal and external facing systems using a combination of ASP.Net, Silverlight, Windows Forms and WPF. Rob has 18 years of experience in software development during which time he has moved from Clipper Summer '87 to Visual Basic 2008 although he has started to dabble in C# this year.....