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

Published Monday, February 23, 2004 9:44 AM by ejsmith
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# re: CodeSmith / Freeware Clarification

Monday, February 23, 2004 12:00 PM by Om3gaSupr3m3
Funny, I seemed to understand that first time, Im usually way behind ;)

Anyway good job on the new version.

# re: CodeSmith / Freeware Clarification

Monday, February 23, 2004 12:15 PM by dotnetjunky
Apart from the new CodeSmith standalone IDE, which is pretty cool btw, what are the new features in this version ?

# re: CodeSmith / Freeware Clarification

Monday, February 23, 2004 1:13 PM by Eric J. Smith
I briefly summarized the new features in my last weblog entry, but, obviously, there are way too many little things to name them all. If you want to see a fairly complete change log, then look at this:
http://www.ericjsmith.net/codesmith/history.txt

Everything, from the 2.1.1270 build on is new for this public release.

# re: CodeSmith / Freeware Clarification

Tuesday, February 24, 2004 10:17 PM by eric j smith
i'm eric j smith too!!! and i think you are boring. you are giving all the eric j smith's a bad name, if you know what i mean.

love,
eric.

# re: CodeSmith / Freeware Clarification

Tuesday, February 24, 2004 11:31 PM by Richard Hsu
Thank you for the clarification.

Like CodeSmith, you are very helpful too :-). Although, had you made it entirely a paid tool, I won't have mind (given that its totally upto your discretion), but knowing that I can continue using CodeSmith Explorer as a freeware makes things much easier for me.

Thank you again for giving CodeSmith to the community.

# re: CodeSmith / Freeware Clarification

Friday, March 05, 2004 4:45 AM by Musa Fejza
this is wery helpfull tool

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