Hi,

I just tried installing T4MVC package from NuGet (2.8.1) on a MVC4 project and got this error, just after the installation says "Successfully installed":

Error 2 Running transformation: System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException: Type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Platform.WindowManagement.DTE.WindowBase' in Assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Platform.WindowManagement, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' is not marked as serializable.
Server stack trace:    at System.Runtime.Serialization.FormatterServices.InternalGetSerializableMembers(RuntimeType type)   at System.Runtime.Serialization.FormatterServices.GetSerializableMembers(Type type, StreamingContext context)   at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.WriteObjectInfo.InitMemberInfo()   at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.WriteObjectInfo.InitSerialize(Object obj, ISurrogateSelector surrogateSelector, StreamingContext context, SerObjectInfoInit serObjectInfoInit, IFormatterConverter converter, ObjectWriter objectWriter, SerializationBinder binder)   at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.WriteObjectInfo.Serialize(Object obj, ISurrogateSelector surrogateSelector, StreamingContext context, SerObjectInfoInit serObjectInfoInit, IFormatterConverter converter, ObjectWriter objectWriter, SerializationBinder binder)   at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.ObjectWriter.Serialize(Object graph, Header[] inHeaders, __BinaryWriter serWriter, Boolean fCheck)   at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter.Serialize(Stream serializationStream, Object graph, Header[] headers, Boolean fCheck)   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.CrossAppDomainSerializer.SerializeMessageParts(ArrayList argsToSerialize)   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.SmuggledMethodReturnMessage..ctor(IMethodReturnMessage mrm)   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.SmuggledMethodReturnMessage.SmuggleIfPossible(IMessage msg)   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.CrossAppDomainSink.DoDispatch(Byte[] reqStmBuff, SmuggledMethodCallMessage smuggledMcm, SmuggledMethodReturnMessage& smuggledMrm)   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.CrossAppDomainSink.DoTransitionDispatchCallback(Object[] args)
Exception rethrown at [0]:    at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.HandleReturnMessage(IMessage reqMsg, IMessage retMsg)   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.PrivateInvoke(MessageData& msgData, Int32 type)   at EnvDTE.ProjectItem.Open(String ViewKind)   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextTemplating4A4267BEEF0C92625588A275EF198455.GeneratedTextTransformation.GetProjectContainingT4File(DTE dte) in x:\Cuéntame\Aplicación\Oikos\Oikos.WebUI\T4MVC.tt:line 674   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextTemplating4A4267BEEF0C92625588A275EF198455.GeneratedTextTransformation.PrepareDataToRender(TextTransformation tt) in x:\Cuéntame\Aplicación\Oikos\Oikos.WebUI\T4MVC.tt:line 654   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextTemplating4A4267BEEF0C92625588A275EF198455.GeneratedTextTransformation.TransformText() in x:\Cuéntame\Aplicación\Oikos\Oikos.WebUI\T4MVC.tt:line 559   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextTemplating.TransformationRunner.RunTransformation(TemplateProcessingSession session, String source, ITextTemplatingEngineHost host, String& result) 1 1

Anyway I Just went on to try if it was working but it's not.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Miguel.

Strange. What happens if you:

• Open t4mvc.tt
• Right click it in Solution Explorer and choose Run Custom Tool

Also, what Add-Ins do you have installed in VS? I think there was one that was causing T4MVC issues, but I can't instantly recall which.

Hi,

Running custom tool on t4mvc.tt worked and it created the "generated" controllers, thanks.

I have no Add-In installed.

Afther that I added a link in the _layout.chtml, just to check if it was working as I understand it should and this line:

<li>@Html.ActionLink("Personas", Oikos.WebUI.Controllers.PersonaController.Index</li>

gets the squiggly line under the action name, but the one that seems to be ok (without the squiggly line) is:

<li>@Html.ActionLink("Personas", Oikos.WebUI.Controllers.PersonaController.ActionNameConstants.Index</li>

I understand it should work as the first line, Am I wrong or missing something?

Thanks,

Miguel.

No, that is not the correct way to do this in T4MVC. See section 2.2 in the doc for examples.

Though if you really want to do it using the action name, you can use MVC.Personna.ActionNames.Index, but that is not recommended in this scenario is you'd miss out on most of the power of T4MVC.

I'm sorry, I don't understand.

If I use PersonaController.Index(), as I understand I have to do since it doesn't receive any parameter, according to the doc, I get the squiggly line.

Can you point me to a Sample app that uses T4MVC ActionLinks from the _layout.cshtml?

Here is a small sample I just put together: https://github.com/davidebbo/T4MVCSampleApp

Hey man you rock!

Thanks a lot for the sample!

When I checked the _Layout page I realized I didn't pay attention to the naming and thought I had to reference the original Controller.Action, it wasn't clear for me, from what I read in the documentation, that I had to reference the new generated "MVC" class.

It now works ok.

Best regards,

Miguel Veloso.