Visual Studio T4 vs CodeSmith

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I've been using CodeSmith for the past 2 years and love what it does for me. However, I also know about T4 which is built in to Visual Studio and can do some pretty cool stuff too. Based on conversations with friends T4 in VS2010 T4 is going to be even better.

So the question is: do I keep riding the CodeSmith bus or is it time to start converting all of my templates to T4?

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