Mono/T4 has released a new dotnet core version, check it out! https://github.com/mono/t4

中文说明

This project's goal is to bring the old T4 text templating code generating approach to the new ASP.NET Core 2.0 projects.

The Visual Studio 2017 and Xamarin Studio now supports to process *.tt files in desing time, but this repo is maybe still useful who wants to process T4 templates in a dotnet core(netstandard2.0) project outside IDE (eg. in Linux or macOS with Visual Studio Code)

Add Nuget.Config File to your solution root with content below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
  <packageSources>
    <add key="NuGet.org" value="https://nuget.org/api/v3/" />
    <add key="ZeekoGet" value="https://www.myget.org/F/zeekoget/api/v3/index.json" />
  </packageSources>
</configuration>

Add the following to YourProject.csproj.

<ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="TextTemplating" Version="2.1.0-alpha1" />
</ItemGroup>
<ItemGroup>
    <DotNetCliToolReference Include="TextTemplating.Tools" Version="2.1.0-alpha1" />
</ItemGroup>

Now you can use the dotnet t4 command as a command line tool to transform templates at design-time, with the specified command line arguments.

Run dotnet t4 -h to see the usage.

Example:

dotnet t4 proc -f DbBase.tt

Add the same packages mentioned above, then you can run dotnet t4 trans -f Person.tt to transform a text template.

Note: You can use all the packages that you have installed into your project when writing T4 template, so there may be no necessary to use "assembly" directive to reference assembly via assembly name(so I skipped these feature, you can also reference assembly via path).

To transform templates at runtime, you can also use the Engine class.

Sample is work in progres

Work in progres

MIT