CodeSmith
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CodeSmith
Last night, I gave my talk on Code Generation and CodeSmith, and I think it went fairly well. I promised I would post the templates I created as well as my slides, which you can get here. The slides are relatively useless. as there's not much details about what I talked about, but there are notes in the powerpoint, so you can get an idea of what I said.There's also a text file in the zip which contains the command lines I used to do batch generation and the "Keep" region example. Here's a listing...
On Tuesday, I agreed to fill in for a colleague and speak at the next West Michigan .NET User Group meeting, which happens to be next Tuesday (October 10th). It's short notice, but I'm sure I'll have time to throw together a pretty decent presentation on code generation and more specifically, CodeSmith. I thought someone had already done something on CodeSmith, but looking back, it appears that's not the case - a couple of years ago, there was a talk about useful tools, where CodeSmith was mentioned,...
I'm going to be doing a major revamp of the business and data layers of an application I have. Right now, it's mainly data readers and dataviews being used, with a few custom business objects. While it works, and is efficient for the task, I programming will be easier and less error prone if I can switch to a domain model with all business objects.Which brings me to my question. Which is better? Code generation or O/R mapping? I'm a huge fan of CodeSmith, and recently got a license for version 3....