ASP.NET MVC Tip #16 – Create ASP.NET MVC Macros

re: ASP.NET MVC Tip #16 – Create ASP.NET MVC Macros

subdigital — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:54:54 GMT

This is a pretty useful tool. It needs a little tweaking, but I like this better than my NAnt solution I did recently.

I'm concerned about the method of selecting the project, as it seems pretty brittle. Most of my apps have many projects, and only one of them is the web project.

Anyway, cool stuff!

re: ASP.NET MVC Tip #16 – Create ASP.NET MVC Macros

swalther — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:41:40 GMT

@panjkov -- You are right that the code included in this tip is really more of a Proof of Concept code sample than anything else. I wanted to show that you could do code generation easily from the Visual Studio Command window. I think it would be really useful and cool to create macros that did more extensive code generation (like create views, LINQ to SQL entities, and so on).

re: ASP.NET MVC Tip #16 – Create ASP.NET MVC Macros

panjkov — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:52:16 GMT

This is something I think should be included in OOTB template.

I have some remarks:

1. In the generated controller class, there are no 'using' statements, as well as the namespace declaration - there are only class declaration and action result method. How do we customize the code created?

2. Also in test controller class, situation is the same

I tried to record a macro to see how this can be done, but I only have DTE Commands with string arguments