Blake Niemyjski

Announcing The CodeSmith Generator 6.0 Visual Studio Template Editor

2011-06-02T15:01:00Z

The CodeSmith Team is very excited to announce that CodeSmith Generator 6.0 will feature a built-in Visual Studio CodeSmith Generator Template Editor on top of our existing Visual Studio Integration. The team has been hard at work integrating a new Template Editor into our Visual Studio integration story. Without further ado:

As you can see from the screenshot above, the CodeSmith Generator Template Editor is sitting inside of Visual Studio. This means you can use a familiar Development Interface to develop, edit and generate templates. Also noticeable is our new property grid which replaces the visual studio property grid (please note this is in the same property tool window as the built in property window). This allows much more flexibility and power to-do things like dynamically filter properties or only show required properties. The image below shows the result of clicking generate for the currently shown editor template.

PLINQO for Entity Framework Templates, Beta 1 Released!

2011-04-05T14:23:00Z

Last week, my employer, CodeSmith Tools released Templates for Entity Framework. Please download the beta version of the templates and give us your feedback while we work on final version of the 1.0 templates. The templates can be downloaded here. Please log your feedback or issues on our forums and Google Code. Your feedback will be reviewed and bugs logged will be fixed in the final 1.0 release.

Below is a list of advantages of using the CodeSmith Generator Entity Framework Beta Templates compared to the out of the box Entity Framework 4.1 Microsoft Implementation:

EDMX
- Quickly and safely regenerate your database while keeping it in sync with your database model.
- Ability to filter what gets updated from the database.
- Ability to safely rename your entities with ease using a Clean Expression.
- Preserves custom changes and meta-data to your EDMX file (E.G. Custom View keys are preserved against regeneration).
- Better support for Views!
Entities
- Each class is generated to a separate editable file.
- Complex types are placed into a separate folder.
- Ability to edit the generated code via the partial class.
- Editable templates are easy to understand and modify.
Query Extensions
- Bring back filtered data easily using chainable query extension methods.
- Support for Comparison Operators (E.G., Equals, GreaterThan, GreaterThanOrEquals, LessThan, LessThanOrEquals and NotEquals)
- Ability to create your own reusable query extensions.
QuickStart
- Get up and running within a few seconds.
- Ability to create a Dynamic Data for Entity Framework project with ease.

We will be greatly expanding on the feature list in the near future like:

More Query Extensions,
Support for Bulk Operations (Update, Insert, Delete),
Rules Engine,
Caching,
Performance Improvements,
Entity Enhancements,
Enumeration Generation(*subject to investigation),
Auditing,
And more!!!!

What are you waiting for? Download the templates here. The documentation for the Entity Framework templates can be found here.

.netTiers 2.3.0 Beta 2

2008-11-30T23:45:00Z

The .netTiers team released .netTiers 2.3.0 Beta 2 today. .netTiers 2.3.0 is a maintenance release containing many bug fixes and patches. We have also added various requested features like Enterprise Library version 4.1 as well as support for Visual Studio 2008. I would have to say the biggest and most requested feature that went into .netTiers 2.3.0 Beta 2 was support for Oracle!

For a complete list of changes and more information please continue reading at source.

CodeSmith 5.0 RTM available now

2008-08-19T17:57:00Z

Over the past year the CodeSmith team has been hard at work on CodeSmith 5.0. This release contains many fixes, performance enhancements and other enhancements over the previous versions. For a list of changes continue reading at the source.

Source: CodeSmith 5.0 RTM available now

Speaking at the Madison .NET User Group

2008-07-30T17:23:00Z

Tonight I will be presenting Code Generation using CodeSmith 5.0 at the Madison .NET User Group. Here are some of the topics that I will be covering:

How-to create templates that use Data Sources, XML, SQL, etc...
Tips and Tricks used by senior fellow CodeSmith users
Demos on Data Access Generation using nHiberate and .netTiers
How templates can make your life easier and save you money
CodeSmith 5.0 specific features

Continue at Source: Speaking at the Madison .NET User Group

A look into the life of a the Student Blogger

2007-11-01T15:35:00Z

One might wonder what happened to me after my first introductory post. Don't worry I'm still alive and not going anywhere in the blogging atmosphere. I have tons of content to write about just no time to sit down and process my ideas. Mainly I am always pretty occupied when I'm not working on homework.

Since this is an outlook on my life as a student, developer and blogger. I will let you know some details of my daily activities. In the mornings I wake up and check my email and head to my 8:00 AM class. Then I go to the library and work on homework between my three classes each day. For dinner I usually eat with one or all of my roommates and occasionally watch a movie once or twice a week. Then I start working on homework or development and continue that late into the morning.

Some of my activities in the past month include:

Went to Texas to attend Telligent's Community Server Developers Conference.
Spent the weekend at the Hospital with family members.
More Development work.
Diving Deep into JavaScript.
MIDTERMS!

As one might see it gets pretty hectic over here. Once I get some more free time I will post what I'm doing and/or what I originally intended to write on:

Design strategies
Best practices
Tips and tricks
My Experiences

In other news:

The Community Server Developer Conference was amazing; I hope all of you will attend the future Telligent Developer Conferences. Kevin Harder has a live blog of the entire conference located here.

This weekend I'm going to be heading up to UW-Oshkosh to the ACM programming competition. So if you are in the area, feel free to stop by!

My experiences with technology

2007-10-02T05:29:00Z

Recently, Joe Stagner contacted me and asked if I would like a blog here at weblogs.asp.net. He didn't have to ask twice, as I have always been an avid reader of weblogs.asp.net. I would first like to introduce myself and then explain what I will be trying to accomplish here at weblogs.asp.net.

My name is Blake Niemyjski and I am currently twenty years old. My birthday is October 16th. I started programming as a hobby about 9 years ago, when I dived deep into Unix Scripting and Basic. I quickly moved on up the ladder to greater things at the time like; VB6, then later on VB.Net. After coding in VB.Net for a while I thought it was time to step it up and made the switch to C#. For those of you who are wondering if you should make the switch, I'll just say that I have never looked back and am extremely happy with C#. Over the course of the last 3 years, I have continued learning other languages, as it is always wise to leave your options open. These languages are: Java, C++, and ASM (and a few various other languages).

Many of you don't know who I am. If you follow Telligent, Extended64 or windowscoding.com, then you more than likely have come into contact with me. Below are three blogs that I operate.

Extended64.com (64 Bit Computing)
windowscoding.com (my website, Development on the windows platform)
Telliterns.com (Telligent Systems Internship Program).

This past summer I spent the summer down in Texas working as an intern at Telligent Systems, Inc. I was on the product team responsible for designing and implementing the new and upcoming product Community Server Enterprise Reporting. It's a pretty cool application that allows you to view your communities' health, and various other statistics. You can view the live demo here.

Over the next couple of months my goal here on weblogs.asp.net will be to inform others on the following topics:

Design strategies
Best practices
Tips and tricks
My Experiences

Please feel free to give me feedback through comments or private messages.

Thanks

-Blake Niemyjski