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CodeSmith / Freeware Clarification

There seems to be some confusion about my blog entry and my website saying that CodeSmith is freeware and then the application saying it's a trial version and will expire in 30 days.  I do a poor job of explaining this on my website, but here is the deal:

CodeSmith IS freeware, it can be installed and used forever and ever without paying anything for it.  CodeSmith Professional IS NOT freeware, but CodeSmith Professional currently only consists of CodeSmith Studio (the template IDE).  So that is the only thing that you would need to pay for if you wanted to use it beyond the 30 days.  Everything else will continue working forever.  So even after the professional version expires, you can continue to use CodeSmith Explorer to execute any templates in a GUI, CodeSmith console to execute any templates at the command line, the Visual Studio.NET CodeSmith Explorer addin to execute templates from VS.NET and the VS.NET custom tool as well.

I hope this helps to clarify this issue.  If not, please post a comment to this post and tell me how I should explain it better.

Thanks,
Eric J. Smith

CodeSmith 2.5 Released!

CodeSmith 2.5 has now been released and, along with it, there is now a CodeSmith Professional version which currently includes CodeSmith Studio. All of the features and more from the previous versions remain freeware, but with the introduction of CodeSmith Professional some new features (CodeSmith Studio for now) will become part of the CodeSmith Professional version. CodeSmith Studio makes creating your own custom templates a LOT easier.

For those of you who don't know what CodeSmith is, CodeSmith is a FREEWARE template-based code generator that can generate code for any ASCII-based language. CodeSmith templates use a syntax nearly identical to ASP.NET syntax so that creating templates should feel immediately familiar to ASP.NET developers.

Here is a summary of what's new:

Click here for a complete list of changes.

Download CodeSmith 2.5 Now!

If you are already a CodeSmith fan, help spread the word by linking to the CodeSmith website, posting to a newsgroup or mention it in your weblog!

Here are some screen shots of CodeSmith Studio:
 
 
 

Dallas DevDays

My co-worker Shane Henderson will be talking at Dallas DevDays about the Match.com 5.0 re-write in .NET.  Here is the case study.

Vault 2.0 Released