Creating Custom Text Template Hosts

The text template transformation process takes a text template file as the input and produces a text file as the output. The text template transformation engine controls the process, and the engine interacts with a text template transformation host and one or more text template directive processors to complete the process. For more information, see Architecture of the Text Template Transformation Process.

In This Section

• Walkthrough: Creating a Custom Text Template Host
  Walks you through creating a custom text template host that makes the text template functionality available outside Visual Studio.

• Walkthrough: Connecting a Host to a Generated Directive Processor
  Walks you through creating a custom text template host that connects to a generated directive processor.

• How to: Create Custom Text Template Hosts
  Lists the steps to create a custom text template host in C# or Visual Basic.

Reference

ITextTemplatingEngineHost

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• Advanced Tasks with Text Templates
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• Creating Custom Text Template Directive Processors
  Provides an overview of text template directive processors.

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