T4 templates vs TT Templates vs Includes in visual studio
t4, templates, transform, visual-studio
Solution
There is no difference. Back around 2008 this feature was treated as if it were an add-in (even though it ended up being built into VS directly). Microsoft called it the "Text Template Transformation Toolkit," hence the `.T4` extension. Common usage shortened that to "text templates" yielding the `.TT` extension and this appears to have become the standard extension.
Transformation files are just code, they can use any feature of the language you choose. For example, in C# templates I regularly reference .NET assemblies as follows:
`<#@ import namespace="System.Text" #>`
Problem
In visual studio there are 2 types of text transformation templates file extensions `.T4` vs `.TT` I would like to know their differences and which one I should use when I want extend to build Views Controllers and Models, when I read a schema off a DB I also want to know if `.includes` can be reused in both.