I am working on a code generation recipe that requires some significant data collection. As such I've created a custom wizard page. The custom wizard populates an object hierarchy that I'd like to make available to my T4 template. I am making the following calls (as shown in the Custom Wizard Page instructions) when my data has been captured into my custom business object:

IDictionaryService dictionaryService = GetService(typeof(IDictionaryService)) as IDictionaryService;
dictionaryService.SetValue("DAFMapper", dafMapper);

DAFMapper is my custom business object. Though the SetValue call appears to be capable of taking an object in it's value param, it dies wanting to convert my object to a string. I'm wondering if anyone else has attempted to push object data (rather than strings) into the stack for use by templates.

--Chris

Turns out I answered my own question and figured I'd post in case someone else runs into this. I had not specified a Type attribute for my DAFMapper argument in my Guidance.xml file. It appears that the default type for an argument is string if none is explicit specified

Turns out I answered my own question and figured I'd post in case someone else runs into this. I had not specified a Type attribute for my DAFMapper argument in my Guidance.xml file. It appears that the default type for an argument is string if none is explicit specified

That's right, the default type is string.