Using templates in PCL Project (design time generation)

[TheMiller2015]

Hello,

I would like to use t4 and your toolbox in a PCL project (platform-independent api). For building my entities, I want to create a template for outputting multiple files. But when I try to Add -> new item, the t4 toolbox section (and also the t4 tanglible) doesn't appear.

My PCL is .NET 4.5, ASP.Net Core 1.0, Xamarin (Android, iOS (+Classic), Mac).

But I thought the code generation is not in a relation with the assembly, since this code is generated during design-time. So it should not matter, what target the project is.

Thanks!

[olegsych]

This could be a simple matter of T4 Toolbox not supplying project item templates for this particular project type.

• Is Text Template available in the list of project item templates for PCL projects?
• Alternatively, if you add a Text File with .tt extension, does it have the Custom Tool property set to TextTemplatingFileGenerator in the Properties window of Visual Studio?