what is and where can I find MvcTextTemplateHost

Question

I would like to know what this is MvcTextTemplateHost. I have this in my create.tt but I cant find it in my bin folder (searching with object viewer). I read up and found ou

Answer 1

You can find all .tt files in VS installation direction, for example to get MVC4 .tt files, go to: ($VSDir)\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\CSharp\Web\MVC 4\CodeTemplates

To get the list of the properties of MvcTextTemplateHost, as they are dynamic, you can add the following code to your .tt file:

<#
Type myType = mvcHost.GetType();
IList props = new List(myType.GetProperties());

foreach (PropertyInfo prop in props)
{
#>
    <#= prop.Name #>
<#
}
#>

I ran it as I create a List View in MVC4, and some of the properties that came up are:

ViewName 
IsPartialView 
IsContentPage 
ReferenceScriptLibraries
AutoEventWireup 
MasterPageFile 
...