what is and where can I find MvcTextTemplateHost

Question

I would like to know what this is MvcTextTemplateHost. I have this in my create.tt but I cant find it in my bin folder (searching with object viewer). I read up and found ou

Answer 1

MvcTextTemplateHost is "Host" of MVC 3.0 (Add>View and Add>Controller) Dialog and maintain user interactions:

so it is not available outside of the tool. When you provide "Scaffolding" template (a .tt file) a manager passes these user inputs to host so host will have those properties.

The class is packaged in: ($VSDIR)\Common7\IDE\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.Mvc.3.01.dll

Hope it helps.