Rendering a Sub-Template

After you've registered a sub-template and set its properties, you can render the sub-template. There are several ways to do this. The first is to render the sub-template directly to the output of the main template:

// instantiate the sub-template.
Header header = this.Create<Header>();
// render the sub-template to the current output stream.
header.Render(this.Response);

Alternatively, you can render the sub-template to a separate file. This is useful when you want to create multiple output files as part of a single code-generation process.

// instantiate the sub-template.
Header header = this.Create<Header>();
// render the sub-template to a separate file.
header.RenderToFile("Somefile.txt");

The RenderToFile method has several overloads that allow for greater control when rending content. The overload shown below will prevent the a generated file from overwriting an already existing file called Somefile.txt.

// instantiate the sub-template.
Header header = this.Create<Header>();
// render the sub-template to a separate file.
// NOTE: If the file exists then an exception will be thrown.
header.RenderToFile("Somefile.txt", false);

The other overloads allow you to use a Merge Strategies to control how the content should be merged with existing content. Also you can one of the overloads that takes a string file path or OutputFile to specify the the file that the output is Dependent Upon.