Prerelease T4 template for OData available.

Question

I saw a few minutes ago that the astoria team (data services) preleases  a new ODATA T4 template. I would think this opens up further plumbing possibilities between LightSwitch OData Services and all kinds of custom clients connecting to it. T4 is definitely more flexible than a service reference or DataSvcUtil. I'm thinking e.g. in the direction of a LS service with delegated authentication where the T4 contains the necessary code in such a way a client is "aware" of the delegated authentication. (for the moment just a premature idea....)

Would love to hear some feedback from the plumbers among you :)

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astoriateam/archive/2012/07/02/trying-out-the-prerelease-odata-client-t4-template.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0&CommentPosted=true#commentmessage

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paul van bladel

Answer 1

That is huge. Thank you for the link. I will try to play wit it in the next few weeks.

My hope is that t4 templates can be used to create non-Mobile HTML LightSwitch applications (the new LightSwitch HTML Client will handle the Mobile applications).

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Answer 2

Hi Michael,

Yes, T4 is a very flexible way to support all sorts of solutions.

I have been contemplating about a similar idea ... We use T4 templates to generate both C# or VB.Net partial classes derived from our DockShell DSL Navigation model as demonstrated in this DockShell introduction video.  We discuss T4 generation at the 50 minute mark of the video (near the end of the video).

If you have any questions or need support with T4 generation please feel free to contact me through our site.

Cheers

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Johnny Larue