Re: CodeSmith Beta 4 Released

Chris,

Yes!  And I must thank you and a couple of others for inspiration to do
this.  We already have this functionality working and are starting to use
it internally.  So far we are loving it!  We have had many times where we
used a previous version of CodeSmith to generate several classes based on
the same template and then found a bug in our template only to have to go
fix this bug manually in every generated class because we had made
cusomizations to the classes.  Now, we are building our templates with the
VS.NET custom tool in mind and providing as many hooks into the template
class as necessary to allow us to make whatever customizations that we
need to make in a derived class and let CodeSmith re-generate the base
code on every build.  This includes doing our business objects this way so
every time we build and there has been a schema change, our code will
reflect that change automatically!

Also, in the new build will be a VS.NET CodeSmith Explorer tool window
addin that just embeds an explorer window into VS.NET and allows you to
drag and drop into your code window.  This will allow for enhanced
productivity for things that can't or shouldn't be re-generated on every
build.  And also for snippets of code.  For instance, we have a template
that generates the code to call a stored procedure based on that stored
procedures information gathered from the included Schema Explorer.  So we
just drag the template into our code window, select the stored procedure,
and poof we have code to call that sproc including input/ouput parameters
and everything.

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