I've been doing some work with T4 templates lately and ran into an issue which I couldn't find an answer to anywhere.  I finally figured it out, so I thought I'd share the solution.

I was trying to generate a code class with a T4 template which used generics

The end result a method like:

public IEnumerator GetEnumerator()
            {
                return new TableEnumerator<Table>(_page);
            }

the related section of the T4 template looks like this:

 public IEnumerator GetEnumerator()
            {
                return new TableEnumerator<#=renderClass.Name#>(_page);
            }

But this of course is missing the Generic Syntax for < > which T4 complains about because < > are reserved.

using syntax like <#<#><#=renderClass.Name#><#=<#> won't work becasue the TextTransformation engine chokes on them.  resulting in : Error 2 The number of opening brackets ('<#') does not match the number of closing brackets ('#>') 

even trying to escape the characters won't work: <#\<#><#=renderClass.Name#><#\<#> this results in:

Error 4 A Statement cannot appear after the first class feature in the template. Only boilerplate, expressions and other class features are allowed after the first class feature block. 

The final solution delcares a few strings to represent the literals like this:

<#+
   void RenderCollectionEnumerator(RenderCollection renderClass)
 {  
  string open = "<";
  string close =">";
#>
   public partial class <#=renderClass.Name#> : IEnumerable
        {
            private readonly PageBase _page;
            public <#=renderClass.Name#>(PageBase page)
            {
                _page = page;
            }

            public IEnumerator GetEnumerator()
            {
                return new TableEnumerator<#=open#><#=renderClass.Name#><#=close#>(_page);
            }
        }
<#+
 } 
#>

This works, and everyone is happy, resulting in an automatically generated class enumerator, complete with generics!

Hopefully this will save someone some time :)