CodeSmith Status Update

Thought I should let everyone know where CodeSmith is at and what is coming in the near future.  Here are some interesting numbers:

It's been a ton of fun so far!!  CodeSmith users are doing some amazing things and the community is really starting to pickup.

For the past 154 days since the last official release, I have been spending nearly every moment of my spare time working on the next release.  It has come a long way and is getting very close to being ready.  It's always hard to predict when you can only dedicate your spare time, but I really can't see there not being a new official release by the end of the year at the absolute latest.  Here is a list of some of the new things to expect in the upcoming release:

• CodeSmith Studio is a full-blown IDE for editing CodeSmith templates with syntax highlighting and ton of various other features to stream-line the template building process.
• Better XML support for your properties.
• Ability to easily save and load your template properties to an XML file.
• Ability to discover the resulting columns of a stored procedure call.
• Ability to merge template output into an existing file using regions in your target file.
• Much improved command line utility.
• Much improved VS.NET add-in support.
• Property default now supports enum values.
• Many new samples and templates.
• A TON of bug fixes and other minor changes.

If you are interested in helping to test the latest builds of CodeSmith, then it's as easy as registering for a Support Forum account and checking the Beta Builds forum.  All beta builds are available to any registered forum user.