CodeSmith / Freeware Clarification

Monday, February 23, 2004

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

Funny, I seemed to understand that first time, Im usually way behind ;)

Anyway good job on the new version.

Om3gaSupr3m3 - Monday, February 23, 2004 5:00:00 PM

Apart from the new CodeSmith standalone IDE, which is pretty cool btw, what are the new features in this version ?

dotnetjunky - Monday, February 23, 2004 5:15:00 PM

this is wery helpfull tool

Musa Fejza - Friday, March 5, 2004 9:45:00 AM

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