Today I posted a question to the the multitude of .NET Developers within my company. "Is it worth while to use COBOL for .NET to help transition legacy programmers from the mainframe to .NET?" The answer I got was a resounding "No!" The three major points they raised follow: Although familiarity with the language syntax would help at first, they would soon fall back into writing procedural code which would end up being detrimental in the long run. The shock of learning a new language syntax will ......
In my last post I discussed some of the other life cycle artifacts that I thought should be included in a Software Factory. In this post I'll show how to use T4 templates to generate a Use Case document from an XML data file. To do this we can invoke a Custom Directive from within a Text Template to parse the XML file and reformat in to an HTML Document. The MSDN's DSL Tools documentation provides a great example on how to create a Custom Text Template Directive Processor I've modified the class, ......