Transforming DSL Setup T4 templates from the command line

posted by  kevyn (54)  15 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

With DSL Tools, we supply a tool called TextTransform.exe to run the T4 text templating engine from the command line.

This is useful for creating batch builds or bulk transformation scripts.

However, it needs a lot of parameters to get it to run, because it needs the context of where to load various directive processors from.  Consequently, the best practice is to call it from a small batch script.

We supply one of these scripts with the DSL Tools, called DslTextTransform.cmd.  This wrapper calls the exe with the right paramete