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Visual T4 for Visual Studio 2010

It’s been a long time since our last post. I just wanted to let you know about the amazing progress we’ve been making on Visual T4 for VS2010. What’s new in short? A major overhaul to take full advantage of all the benefits of the brand new WPF-based core text editor as well as the new language services to provide the absolutely unique and long-time praised Intellisense integration.

We’ll go into the details on another post, but here’s a bunch of screenshots to get you excited, using the ADO.NET C# POCO Entity Generator templates.

Colors honor your favorite C# editor settings:

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Tooltips as usual in C#:

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Intellisense on APIs as usual in C#:

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Parameter info as usual in C# code :)

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Pretty good indenting!

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Full support for VERY complex includes! (the EF one has 2200+ lines)

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Full T4 directives intellisense with tooltips, as you’d expect:

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Can add arbitrary assemblies an get their intellisense too:

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Can build any LINQ query you fancy with full intellisense:

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Use your favorite code snippets as usual in C#:

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With even full anonymous types support:

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