Doug King - All Comments

re:Code generation with NANT and IIS/ASPX

TrackBack — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 22:57:00 GMT

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re:Authoring .NET shareware programs - tackling the framework redist problem

TrackBack — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:35:00 GMT

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re:Code generation with NANT and IIS/ASPX

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re: Authoring .NET shareware programs - tackling the framework redist problem

Jason Chung — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 08:24:00 GMT

Thinstall doesn't make any modificiations to any of the .NET DLLs (other than compression) and it appears MS's EULA allows redistribution of runtime files.

http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/51/255057.aspx

re: Authoring .NET shareware programs - tackling the framework redist problem

Thomas Tomiczek — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 05:26:00 GMT

What about the LEGAL implications?Nowhere in the EULA for the .net framework does it allow riüpping code out of the dll's. It can be argued that by selling software created with this tool you are engaging in creating illegal copies.

Note that I am not against tools like this per se. I would love to be able to use some. Just so far no lawyer could answer the question whether I am doing something illegal here.

re: Authoring .NET shareware programs - tackling the framework redist problem

Matt Hawley — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:37:00 GMT

I've used NSIS (http://nsis.sf.net) only with my applications. As I find its *not as easy* to package the .NET framework as this may be, it can be done, and be done successfully. NSIS, on the otherhand, is free to anyone who wants to use it, and I've found it invaluable.

re: Code generation with NANT and IIS/ASPX

Michael Hensen — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 08:26:00 GMT

Keep me posted on this if you will..

Currently I am working on a new website. This needs to be as flexible as one can get in either frond, cms and database.

I now start to build it up using a way to define objects. Build the objects in binary format and store its data in a serialized format in sql. As a page consists of modules and each module constists ob objects I came up with this idea.

Regards..
Michael Hensen

re: Code generation with NANT and IIS/ASPX

Doug King — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 23:45:00 GMT

I am familiar with CodeSmith and other ASP style generators such as ProcBlaster. I even wrote my own recently, complete with editor and debugger, ready for prime time. At one point I thought I would turn it into a commercial product. Although CodeSmith is flexible (no framework lock-in), you still don't get the quality of tools that you get with Visual Studio, which in my scenario is probably what you would be using to build and debug your ASPX generator pages. Using IIS doesn't seem to be a stringent requirement - it's available to most developers and the VS IDE makes it easy to create and debug web apps.

Joseph I think you've got the right idea. I must have researched just about every generator out there, installed and tested demo versions of 6 or 7 of them (CodeSmith was the best of the bunch in my opinion) and even built my own. Finally I settled on the approach outlined above. Leveraging common well documented technology that can be configured in a number of ways is what I was striving for. The missing link was a flexible build tool to drive the process and with NANT that is taken care of. In the end I think this approach is the most open, flexible and powerfull for a .NET developer.