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DFW Area CodeSmith 3.0 Presentation (Plus $80,000+ Free CodeSmith Professional Licenses)
If you live (or can travel to) the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex, please join the North Dallas .NET User Group on August 3, for a CodeSmith 3.0 Tips & Tricks demo-filled session by my partner Rob Howard. As an added bonus all attendees will get a *FREE* license to CodeSmith 3.0 Professional -- a $399 value!! -
Development Tool of the Year
Development Tool of the Year
“How many times you you been coding a business or data layer object and thought... "This is sooo repetitve there must be a better way." Well there is! CodeSmith is a template driven code generation tool. Now don't lose me... I know you heard code generation and are thinking this is some blue sky type of tool, but trust me this is the real deal.” … -
ARC305: Code Generation - Architecting a New Kind of Reuse
Scott Hanselman points out that his TechEd 2005 code generation talk is available online now. Scott is a great presenter and does a great job on this talk. Scott’s company Corillian makes extensive use of code generation techniques and CodeSmith is their code generation tool of choice.
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Batch code generation with CodeSmith console
Batch code generation with CodeSmith console
… “I'm always keeping my eyes open for practical tools that save time and mental sanity. One of the most mentally-draining tasks is repetitious modifying of simple code. For example, many simple CRUD (Create-Read-Update-Delete) stored procedures, and their accompanying DAL and Business Objects are redundant. Ideally we could just auto-generate this given the inputs. Auto code generation is a great time saver, which frees us from boring tasks to focus on interesting ones.” … -
Expert .NET Delivery Using NAnt and CruiseControl.NET
I haven’t had a chance to read this book yet, but it looks like it will be full of great information. Chapter 9 talks about using code generation techniques (CodeSmith in particular) to aid in the delivery process. -
CodeSmith is becoming really useful
CodeSmith is becoming really useful
… “Once the first XML to database process was finished, I used each of the major artifacts as the basis for a CodeSmith template. Using these templates, I was able to generate the next set in the time it took my colleague to work out why TeamTest was crashing when testing something using the Enterprise Library (i.e. a couple of hours).Once the first XML to database process was finished, I used each of the major artifacts as the basis for a CodeSmith template. Using these templates, I was able to generate the next set in the time it took my colleague to work out why TeamTest was crashing when testing something using the Enterprise Library (i.e. a couple of hours).” … -
CodeSmith as a job requirement
It’s a very cool feeling to see job postings that are listing an application that you built as a job requirement.
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DNN300: Developing Custom DotNetNuke Modules
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CodeSmith 3.0 Review by David Hayden
CodeSmith 3.0 Review by David Hayden
“… This is probably the defacto standard Code Generation Tool when working with databases. I have lost count as to how many templates I have to create web pages, usercontrols, business classes, data access objects, stored procedures, mapping files for O/R Mappers, etc. This is a must have tool to get you out of creating a lot of the monotonous plumbing associated with building applications. …” -
Is Dynamic SQL in Your Stored Procedures Vulnerable to SQL Injection?
Is Dynamic SQL in Your Stored Procedures Vulnerable to SQL Injection?
... article. Since writing sprocs as outlined in Erland's article can be tedious, I created a CodeSmith template that will do the work for you. You only need to input the table you wish to query, and CodeSmith will generate a complete sproc for you. ...