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prestonsmith
prestonsmith

Reputation: 778

Issues using T4 to generate basic Assembly Information

I'm having issues just creating the most basic of Assembly Information using T4 - can anyone give me a hand?

I simply want the code below to generate a version number, manually so I can see that it works but the compiled .cs file doesn't have the information it should.

Here's the code:

SharedAssemblyInfo.tt

<#@ template debug="false" hostspecific="false" language="C#" #>
<#@ output extension=".cs" #>
<#
    int major    = 5;
    int minor    = 0;
    int build    = 0;
    int revisions = 0;

    // TODO: Write code here to automatically generate a version

    string version = String.Format("{0}.{1}.{2}.{3}",
                                   major,
                                   minor,
                                   build,
                                   revisions);
#>
// This code was generated by a tool. Any changes made manually will be lost
// the next time this code is regenerated.

using System.Reflection;


[assembly: AssemblyVersion("<#= version #>")]
[assembly: AssemblyFileVersion("<#= version #>")]

Here's the expected result:

SharedAssemblyInfo.cs

using System.Reflection;

[assembly: AssemblyVersion("5.0.0.0")]
[assembly: AssemblyFileVersion("5.0.0.0")]

And here's the actual result - which does not have any of the assembly code above.

This is similar to a few questions I've reviewed like these: this, this and this but even following their specific use cases, I've not been able to produce a .cs file that has the AssemblyVersion and AssemblyFileVersion attributes I'm expecting

Upvotes: 1

Views: 754

Answers (1)

duncanp
duncanp

Reputation: 1590

From the output, it looks like you have the .tt file configured as a runtime file generator rather than a design time generator.

Check the Custom Tool property for the file. It should be TextTemplateFileGenerator, not TextTemplatingFilePreprocessor:

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Upvotes: 1

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