ITDevSpace - Development Tips & Tricks

Add <startup> tag to the bottom of app.config file <?xml version=" 1.0 "?> <configuration> <startup useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy=" true "> <supportedRuntime version=" v4.0 " sku=" .NETFramework,Version=v4.0 "/> </startup> </configuration>

public static string GetIPAddress( string server) { var host = Dns.GetHostEntry(server); if (host.AddressList.Length>0) { return host.AddressList[0].ToString(); } return null ; }

VS2010 build in templating engine. Add new ‘Preprocessed Text Template’ called T4Template.tt to your project that looks like that <#@ template debug=" true " language=" C# "#> <#@ parameter name=" FirstName " type=" System.String " #> Now: <#= DateTime.Now.ToString() #> FirstName: <#= FirstName #> This is a sample program to run the template class Program { private static void Main( string [] args) { var template = new T4Template(); template.Session = new Dictionary< string , object >(); template.Session.Add(" FirstName ", " John "); template.Initialize(); Console.WriteLine(template.TransformText()); } } and output Now: 12/01/2012 10:42:07 FirstName: John

Templating engine built upon Microsoft's Razor parsing technology http://razorengine.codeplex.com/ Add new text file to your project called ‘RazorTemplate.txt’ that looks like that Hello @Model.Name! Welcome to Razor! This is a sample program to run the template class Program { private static void Main() { var template = File.ReadAllText(" RazorTemplate.txt "); var result = Razor.Parse(template, new {Name = " John "}); Console.WriteLine(result); } } and output Hello John! Welcome to Razor! another example with custom model //template @inherits RazorEngine.Templating.TemplateBase<RazorSample.RazorModel> Hello @Model.Name! Welcome to Razor! //Test namespace RazorSample { [TestFixture] class Tests { [Test] public void Test() { var template = File.ReadAllText(" RazorTemplate.txt "); var result = Razor.Parse(template, new