Installing My Own POCO Template

Question

How do I install my own POCO templates into Visual Studio 2010, so that they appear in the dialog when selecting "Add New Artifact Generation Item" from the model designer context menu?  It's easy enough to just drop the .tt file into a project, but I would like to enumlate the same development experience as when using one of the "out-of-the-box" CTP templates.  Thanks,

Tony

Answer 1

Check out this thread:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/adonetefx/thread/17e67c2e-8cfe-4566-b6f5-3f6b3ba3d9fb

Answer 2

Thanks for the info.  I've put together a batch file that installs the a POCO T4 template into Visual Studio so that it shows up with selecting "Add Code Generation Artifact" from the context menu when right-clicking the design surface of an EDMX file: http://blog.tonysneed.com/2009/12/13/adding-your-own-t4-templates-for-ef4-to-visual-studio-2010/

Cheers,
Tony