Chapter 7. Generating Code from Templates with T4
If you’ve looked at the two case studies in this book, you may well be concerned about the complexity of a typical code-generation solution (especially if you’ve looked at the CodeDom solution in Chapter 10, “Case Study: Generating Validation Code”). The main thing that you should be worried about is maintenance: Most shops spend 75 percent of their time extending, modifying, and (occasionally) fixing existing code. As a result, developers prefer solutions that are easy to maintain. You may be concerned that, because of the complexity ...
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