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Kirill, Actually I am not getting how you gets the...

2012-01-19T02:04:49.736-08:00

Kirill,
Actually I am not getting how you gets the dll from the Windows application and how you are registering your dll into the GAC directly after post build. Will you plz explain this in some detail?
To get the dll I have another Class Library project. Now my application works fine but I have an issue while updating the dll. If I made some changes to my dll then the new changes are not reflected in the Wizard. For this I have unregistered the previous dll and registered the new one. I think the previous dll gets stored in the memory.
Please provide me solution for this issue and plz provide explaination for the above que in first paragraph..!

Thanks & Regards,
Mayur Mahajan

Hi Mayur Templating Engine can reference assembli...

2012-01-17T21:28:26.370-08:00

Hi Mayur

Templating Engine can reference assemblies from GAC only - as I remember
If you download code for this article - you will see that in post build event the assemblies are registered in GAC

Regards,
Kirill

Hello, I am creating a Windows Application. ...

2012-01-17T07:51:48.961-08:00

Hello,

I am creating a Windows Application. In that I am using T4 Templates.
In T4 templates I have a code which uses some of the static properties and methods of some class from the same project. But when I tries to add reference to that class I get the error as : "[b]Compiling transformation: Invalid reference option: 'WindowsWIzard' -- cannot reference directories[/b]"
The code I have written in .tt file is as follows :

<#@ template language="C#" hostspecific="True" debug="True" #>
<#@ output extension="?" #>
<#@ assembly name="Microsoft.VisualBasic" #>
<#@ assembly name="WindowsWizard" #>
<#@ import namespace="WindowsWizard" #>
<#@ import namespace="WindowsWizard.Templates" #>
<#@ include file="T4Toolbox.tt" #>
<#@ include file="CrudProcedureGenerator.tt" #>
<#@ include file="DeleteProcedureTemplate.tt" #>
<#@ include file="InsertProcedureTemplate.tt" #>
<#@ include file="UpdateProcedureTemplate.tt" #>

<#

CrudProcedureGenerator generator = new CrudProcedureGenerator();
generator.DatabaseName = GenerateCode.SendDBName;
generator.Run();
#>

Here the code block in the standard directives is working fine as I have checked it in another demo application. It is refering above .tt files in include directive. WindowsWIzard is the name of my project i.e. assembly.

Am I doing something wrong? How can I refer refer methods from another Class into the template?

Thanks a lot Kirill. The above link does not cover...

2012-01-12T04:46:32.932-08:00

Thanks a lot Kirill. The above link does not covers much about what I wanted but as you suggested I searched for "IWizard and how to use it" and then I got one link which I should mention here for others people trying to that. The link is : "http://www.bluelemoncode.com/post/2012/01/05/Creating-custom-project-and-file-template-with-wizard-for-Visual-Studio.aspx".
This link is very good and explains well about the Wizard creation for the Templates.
Also go through the link "http://blog.devarchive.net/2010/10/code-generation-using-custom-item.html".

Thanks a lot once again Kirill.

Hi Mayur, you can look for more info here: http:/...

2012-01-04T10:30:55.351-08:00

Hi Mayur,

you can look for more info here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc188697.aspx
please search IWIzard and how to use it.
I did not read the article but it seems it covers that.
I used another reasource from MSDN when created this - but that resource disappeared from msdn :(
That is why the link does not work anymore

anyway try new link - it seems to cover that as well

Cheers,
Kirill

Kirill, the above post is the best post of all. I...

2012-01-04T07:14:11.259-08:00

Kirill,

the above post is the best post of all. I wanted to do the same thing and after reading your post i got some hope that this can be done. But I am not getting one thing that :

How do you call your wizard when we select the template from "File-->Add new Item". I wanted to call my own User Interface. How should I achieve this?

Great! Thank you - it is very good post.

2010-12-07T05:48:44.063-08:00

Great! Thank you - it is very good post.