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Moving from m3rlin to Codesmith

I now have the winform control up and running. Now after looking at CodeSmith I decided to give it a go due to the very nice IDE CodeSmith comes with. Now I have codesmith running from within ASP.NET referencing the asp.net application it can generate my dataobjects. Now I need to create the build process for the component. I decided that I will put all datacomponents in 1 single assembly. This is much easier referencing them from the scripttemplates for the modules. I have asked Eric about the license(s) required to do this. All the company needs is a new pro license for CodeSmith. At $79.95 I guess this is a bargain instead of trying to figure this out all by myself.

Anyone having a webform generator I can use that a content manager can build up? On this point I need to do some thinking because a website is not only presenting but also some input elements are required.

Any comments are very welcome!

 

Posted: Feb 26 2004, 05:06 PM by Michael Hensen | with 3 comment(s)
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Frans Bouma said:

also check: http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/GriffinMyGen.asp

code generator with ide.
# February 26, 2004 11:15 AM

Michael Hensen said:

I had checked it out already.. The full website is at http://www.mygenerationsoftware.com/Default.aspx

I had a better feeling with CodeSmith as there is a large userbase and the product is in use in various companies. So the product has better support although you need to pay a small fee for a licence.

So rethinking the choises made it still is between CodeSmith or m3rlin.
# February 26, 2004 2:00 PM

JosephCooney said:

Hi WebVize - I'm glad you've got some use out of m3rlin. CodeSmith is a more mature product with a much bigger user base, and proper support so it obvoiusly has some advantages. I use VS.NET to edit my m3rlin templates, and it is not too bad.

VS 2005 (AKA "whidbey") is VERY good for template editing because it has syntax hilighting and intellisense in the code-in-front (your template). If you can get a "technical preview" release of it you might want to check it out. I haven't checked codesmith with it's new IDE but I believe intellisense and syntax hilighting will be difficult features to implement for Eric (kudos to him if he has).

$79.95 IS a small price to pay for CodeSmith though.
# May 18, 2004 1:11 AM
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