MyGeneration - Code Generation and OR Mapping. Visual Studio Templates. Code Generation and T4 Text Templates. In Visual Studio, a T4 text template is a mixture of text blocks and control logic that can generate a text file.
The control logic is written as fragments of program code in Visual C# or Visual Basic. The generated file can be text of any kind, such as a Web page, or a resource file, or program source code in any language. There are two kinds of T4 text templates: