Last week, I blogged about a nice way of auto-running T4MVC by using the Macro IDE to write an OnBuildBegin event handler . This was a big improvement over the hacky 'AlwaysKeepTemplateDirty' flag that we've been using since T4MVC's early days. Since then, Wayne Brantley has taken this idea to the next level by turning it into a Visual Studio AddIn. Check out his post and give it a try! The nice benefits of the AddIn over directly handling VS events in the macro IDE are: Simpler install : you drop a couple files in the AddIn folder and it just works Encapsulation : all the code related to this is in one binary Easy to disable : once the AddIn is installed, you can just go in Tools / AddIn Manager to turn it on or off Note that Wayne...(read more) ...
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