Codesmith practical skills (7): copying attributes from a parent Template

In use Codesmith ProceedCodeDuring generation, you may need to share attributes between the subtemplate and the parent template. For example, to write a template that generates code based on the database, each template defines a template named Server . When you use this attribute in the parent template, its value only takes effect for the parent template. To set this value to a subtemplate, you can use it in the parent template. Copypropertiesto Method. When this attribute is used in the parent template, its value is sent to the subtemplate. The following code shows how to use this method: // Instantiate the sub-template
Header =   New Header ();
// Copy all properties with matching name and type to the sub-template instance
This . Copypropertiesto (header );