I'm trying to add a custom template without Template Studio.

So, I've 1. created a template file (Templates\SharedTemplates\Net2.x\C#\zzz.template) and a templatebindings file (Templates\zzz.templatebindings) 2. updated a preset task I'm using for generating the code: appended it with my task call

...
<taskGroupPreset name="Zzz.Tasks.Adapter.FileCreators">
      <taskPreset name="Zzz.Tasks.Adapter.LLBLGenGenerator">
        <parameters>
          <parameter name="destinationFolder" value="[dbspecificSubFolder]" />
          <parameter name="templateID" value="zzzTemplate" />
        </parameters>
      </taskPreset>
</taskGroupPreset>

1. created a Zzz.Tasks.Adapter.tasks file in Tasks folder (the mentioned preset file sits there) and put the task there.

I was assuming it was everything I needed but my file isn't generated.

On the other hand, I was able to generate it by updating the default templatebindings, but I'd better off not modifying shipped files.

So, what am I missing?

Just noticed there's a list of template bindings on the UI (Project->Generate in LLBLGenPro) - apparently I'd need to add my zzz.templatebindings therein, yet not sure how.

works fine after I removed databaseDriverID reference from my custom templatesbindings.

BTW, why? all shipped templatebindings do have that param..

The databasedriverid is used to filter out templates which aren't usable for the target db in the project. So if you for example have an ms access based project, you can't use CF.NET projects as there's no CF.NET DQE for access dbs.

So if you add a databasedriverid to the templatebindings which is different from the one of your database used in the project, the templatebindings are filtered out and therefore not used.