C# Equivalent for C++ Macros and using Auto<> Properties

Question

I have some auto-instantiation code which I would like to apply to about 15 properties in a fairly big class. The code is similar to the following but the type is differ

Answer 1

You could use the much overlooked T4 (Text Template Transformation Toolkit) to generate the code. It is included with Visual Studio 2008.

There was a 2009-06 .NET Rocks episode about it: "Peter Vogel uses Code Generation".