New Powerful Visual Studio add-in for editing T4 Templates

June 03, 2011 (Press-News.org) Devart today unveiled the release of new powerful Visual Studio add-in for editing T4 templates with syntax highlighting, intellisense, code outlining, and all features of first-class text editor add-in for Visual Studio. It provides very high performance and makes creating T4 templates easier and faster.
With this new add-in, Devart offers a fast and easy way to create and edit T4 templates with multilevel template including, convenient template navigation, and rich code editing features.

Intellisense
Devart T4 editor provides comprehensive intellisense including all Visual Studio C# and Visual Basic intellisense features - tooltips, parameter info, code completion, and additionally supports a completion list for template directives. T4 editor intellisense lists all available C# classes and members, even those that are in included template files and in referenced assemblies.

Syntax Highlighting
With highlighting template directives, C# and Visual Basic code, you can easily distinguish text from the function calls. Fonts and colors for templates can be customized as for any Visual Studio code editor.

Goto
Devart T4 Editor allows you to navigate to definitions and declarations of objects and members if they are present in the template file or included files.

Include
Devart T4 Editor supports multilevel template including. All classes from included templates are available in intellisense, and you can navigate to them with Go To menu commands.

Outlining
Devart T4 editor supports fast and convenient code folding feature. You can hide or display T4 control blocks, which simplifies template understanding and editing.

Editor Customization
You can enable or disable intellisense, word wrapping, virtual whitespace, line numbers, etc. Fonts and colors for syntax highlighting also can be changed.

Indenting
Devart T4 editor provides customizable and intelligent indenting.You don't need to add spaces or tab characters manually.

Code Formatting
Devart T4 Editor allows you to format templates automatically.

Support for Large Templates
Devart T4 Editor quickly parses even large template files with lots of included files. It provides high performance when parsing and editing templates.

Pricing and Availability
T4 Editor is an absolutely free tool, but nevertheless you can receive full support. T4 Editor is available for immediate download at http://www.devart.com/t4-editor/download.html
Users are welcome to write any comments and suggestions about Devart T4 Editor on its support page — http://www.devart.com/t4-editor/support.html

About Devart
Devart is a widely recognized provider of database connectivity solutions and tools for the most popular databases, including MS SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, InterBase, Firebird and SQLite.
Since 1998, Devart is focused on the development of native database data access solutions, development and database tools for a wide range of databases and development technologies. Devart solutions provide the fastest data access available on the market and the broadest database support to many thousands of industry professionals.
For additional information about Devart, visit http://www.devart.com/company/