Re: CodeSmith Beta 4 Released

Both of those sound really cool. Let me know when the new version is
available.

Chris Sells
http://www.sellsbrothers.com


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> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 9:20 AM
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> Subject: Re: [GENX] 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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