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Applies to: 
Visual Studio 
Visual Studio for Mac
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The Text Templating API lets you invoke and customize the transformation of text templates.
Namespaces
| Namespace | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextTemplating | Contains classes for the text template transformation functionality. The text template transformation engine is integrated into Visual Studio, and transforms text template files into generated text output files. |
| Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextTemplating.Modeling | Provides text transformation facilities related to UML models and domain-specific languages, such as access to Visual Studio ModelBus. |
| Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextTemplating.VSHost | Provides access to the text templating service in Visual Studio. |