t4

问题 I\'m using Entity Framework 5 with Visual Studio with Entity Framework Power Tools Beta 2 to reverse engineer moderately sized databases (~100 tables). Unfortunately, the navigation properties do not have meaningful names . For example, if there are two tables: CREATE TABLE Contacts ( ContactID INT IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL, ... CONSTRAINT PK_Contacts PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED (ContactID ASC) } CREATE TABLE Projects ( ProjectID INT IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL, TechnicalContactID INT NOT NULL,

问题 How do I get a T4 template to generate its output on every build? As it is now, it only regenerates it when I make a change to the template. I have found other questions similar to this: T4 transformation and build order in Visual Studio (unanswered) How to get t4 files to build in visual studio? (answers are not detailed enough [while still being plenty complicated] and don\'t even make total sense) There has got to be a simpler way to do this! 回答1: I used JoelFan's answer to come up w/ this