dotnet-t4: Use -c without specifying class name

[bricelam]

I hate the redundancy of specifying commands like this to preprocess templates:

t4 -c MyTemplate MyTemplate.tt

I'd love to see a new option that infers the class name from the input file so I can just specify something like this:

t4 --preprocess MyTemplate.tt

[bricelam]

Hmm, looks like you'd also need a way to specify the namespace.

Maybe this issue isn't really worth it in the end.

[mhutch]

This seems reasonable to me - even if it's no more concise, eliminating redundancy helps reduce user error.

Maybe just t4 -n SomeNamespace SomeClassname.tt ?

[zha999]

@bricelam
If you are add command in project config file (e.g. csproj), you may try the method of https://github.com/nogic1008/T4Sample.

<Exec WorkingDirectory="$(ProjectDir)" Command="dotnet t4 %(TextTemplate.Identity) -c $(RootNameSpace).%(TextTemplate.Filename) -o %(TextTemplate.Filename).Generated.cs" />