templates.md

uid	level	summary
templates	200	The document provides a guide on writing T# templates in Metalama, covering topics like template language introduction, compile-time code, dynamic code generation, and debugging.

Writing T# templates

Code templates in Metalama are written in a dialect of C#, known as T#. The syntax of T# is fully compatible with C#, but T# is compiled differently.

This chapter includes the following articles:

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        This article provides guidance on how to debug templates.
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Article	Description
	This article provides an introduction to T#, the template language for Metalama.
	This article outlines the subset of the C# language that can be used as compile-time code and illustrates how to create templates with rich compile-time logic.
	This article details different techniques for generating run-time code dynamically.
	This article clarifies how to generate run-time `System.Reflection` objects for compile-time `Metalama.Framework.Code` objects from a template.
	This article describes how to pass parameters, including generic parameters, from the `BuildAspect` method to the template.
	This article explains how templates can invoke other templates, referred to as auxiliary templates.