Are there any alternatives to T4 templates and EnvDTE for cross platform asp.net 5 development?

Question

We currently use T4 templates to generate C# code files based on C# Code (Entity POCO's) and the EDMX (in older applications)

Moving to ASP.NET 5 with a view to support cross platform development, are there any code generation tools available that can read a projects class & meta data structures, and to generate C# files at design time, similar to T4 templates?

Answer 1

You can try Scripty - it is Roslyn based scripting.

• Syntax highlighting for *.csx files works out of the box;
• VS extension exists to process scripts on save;
• MSBuild task exists to process scripts during buld process;
• Script allows you to traverse a hierarchical model of the project;
• Multiple files generation from single script is supported;