Get Visual Studio to run a T4 Template on every build

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I agree with GarethJ – in VS2010 it is much easier to regenerate tt templates on each build.
Oleg Sych’s blog describes how to do it. In short:

  1. Install Visual Studio SDK
  2. Install Visual Studio 2010 Modeling
    and Visualization SDK
  3. Open in text editor project file and
    add to the end of file but before </Project>

That’s it. Open your project. On each build all *.tt templates will be reprocessed

<!-- This line could already present in file. If it is so just skip it  -->
<Import Project="$(MSBuildToolsPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />
<!-- process *.tt templates on each build  -->
<PropertyGroup>
    <TransformOnBuild>true</TransformOnBuild>
</PropertyGroup>
<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\TextTemplating\v10.0\Microsoft.TextTemplating.targets" />

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