Visual T4 in the news!

Our Visual T4 products continue to be mentioned by pretty much everyone out there working with T4. You already know our tools were used in MIX09 (besides other major conferences in the past) and that pretty big teams at Microsoft recommend it.

We did google a bit and these are the most “remarkable” mentions we’re getting (it’s just great to see we have built the “standard” tool for editing T4 files!):

Scott Hanlseman (Principal Program Manager, Microsoft) on T4 (Text Template Transformation Toolkit) Code Generation - Best Kept Visual Studio Secret:

"if you want really get the most out of T4, first, head over to Clarius Consulting and get their "T4 Editor Community Edition." That'll get you some basic coloring. They have a pay version that gets you more if you want."

 Oleg Sych, uses Visual T4 Editor in his must-read series of T4 articles mentions:

“…Instead, the approach used by Clarius in their implementation of this directive included with T4 Editor relies on CallContext, is a lot more robust and elegant…”

“…Text editing and debugging support for T4 templates is currently rather limited. T4 Editor (a free download) from Clarius Consulting provides IntelliSense and syntax highlighting in Visual Studio text editor for .tt files…”

Miguel de Icaza, on Mono's Text Template Transformation Toolkit (T4):

“To my surprise T4 thing is wildly used by lots of people. Daniel Cazzulino's company has a product just to improve Visual Studio's support for editing .tt files.”

Redmond Developer News , on Code Generation Made Easy :

"There are a lot of tools out there that do code generation," Conery says. "Great tools like CodeSmith and Clarius Consulting's T4 Editor”

Gareth Jones (Visual Studio team member, Microsoft) , on Clarius take T4 editing to the next level :

“…I see that Clarius have now got to an alpha stage for the next stage of their T4 editing toolset.

As well as their Community Edition and Pro Edition, they're now going to offer a full-featured code generation environment they're calling Visual T4 Code Generator, including tight integration with server explorer, database tables and XML as well as a multi-file generation implementation out of the box and lots more beside…”

Pedro Silva (Visual Studio team member, Microsoft) , on T4 Editor Beta Released:

“The folks at Clarius have an update to their T4 template editor. They're now in Beta. It's a very useful editor for anyone doing large amounts of T4 template editing with good factoring of template code vs script and color coding of keywords.”

Kathleen Dollard (Microsoft MVP) , on What’s Wrong with T4?:

“There’s good news here. Clarius provides a colorizing editor as a community edition to get you started. If you want fancier features, their main product is just $100”