In Visual Studio text templates, the output directive is used to define the file name extension and encoding of the transformed file.
For example, if your Visual Studio project includes a template file named MyTemplate.tt which contains the following directive:
<#@output extension=".cs"#>
then Visual Studio will generate a file named MyTemplate.cs
The output directive is not required in a run-time (preprocessed) text template. Instead, your application obtains the generated string by calling TextTransform(). For more information, see Run-Time Text Generation with T4 Text Templates.
<#@ output extension=".fileNameExtension" [encoding="encoding"] #>
There should be no more than one output directive in each text template.
Specifies the file name extension of the generated text output file.
The default value is .cs
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Examples:
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<#@ output extension=".txt" #>
<#@ output extension=".htm" #>
<#@ output extension=".cs" #>
<#@ output extension=".vb" #>
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Acceptable Values:
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Any valid file name extension.
Specifies the encoding to use when the output file is generated. For example:
<#@ output encoding="utf-8"#>
The default value is the encoding used by the text template file.
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Acceptable Values:
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us-ascii
utf-16BE
utf-16
utf-8
utf-7
utf-32
0 (System default)
In general, you can use the WebName string or the CodePage number of any of the encodings returned by EncodingGetEncoding.
