Using T4MVC in real project

Question

T4MVC is cool, but I have a couple of issues integrating it in my project, any help is really appriciated:

1. I've got such warnings for all my actions (I use SnippetsBaseController as base class for all my controller classes:

   Warning 26 'Snippets.Controllers.ErrorController.Actions' hides inherited member 'Snippets.Controllers.Base.SnippetsBaseController.Actions'. Use the new keyword if hiding was intended. C:\projects_crisp-source_crisp\crisp-snippets\Snippets\T4MVC.cs 481 32 Snippets

2. Is it possible to have strongly typed names of custom Routes, for example, I have route defined like this:

       routes.MapRoute(
           "Feed",
           "feed/",
           MVC.Snippets.Rss()
       );
   

Is it possible to replace:

<%= Url.RouteUrl("Feed") %>

with something like:

<%= Url.RouteUrl(MVC.Routes.Feed) %>

3. Having strongly typed links to static files is really cool, but I use <base /> in my pages, so I don't need any URL processing, can I redefine T4MVCHelpers.ProcessVirtualPath without tweaking the T4MVC.tt itself?

4. T4MVC always generate links with uppercased controller and action names, for example: /Snippets/Add instead of /snippets/add. Is it possible to generate them lowercase?

Answer 1

1. Can you change your base controller class to be abstract? I think that'll fix it.

2. See this post which discusses this: http://forums.asp.net/t/1535567.aspx

3. If you look in t4mvc.settings.t4, you'll see a ProcessVirtualPathDefault method that you can change without touching the main .tt file.

4. See http://forums.asp.net/t/1532057.aspx. There is suggested fix in there, though it has not yet been submitted (but you can try it).

David