CodeSmith Announcements

CodeSmith Generator 6.5 Release Candidate

ejsmith — Thu, 10 May 2012 22:41:00 GMT

Work on CodeSmith Generator 6.5 is almost complete. Today, we are releasing the CodeSmith Generator 6.5 RC . This release has MANY improvements and bug fixes from the beta version and we are hoping to get your feedback before final release. For a list...(read more)

Announcing Visual Studio 11 Integration

Blake Niemyjski — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:26:00 GMT

We are excited to announce support for the Visual Studio 11 (VS11) Beta today. This will be available in the next beta of CodeSmith Generator 6.5 , which is coming soon. We have done a lot of work in structuring CodeSmith Generator 6.x to allow us to...(read more)

CodeSmith Generator Setup Documentation

Cody Smith — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT

We want setting up CodeSmith Generator to be as easy as 1-2-3! So, we have been working on some new documentation covering how to setup CodeSmith Generator for over a week now, and we are finally ready to announce it! Some things we will go over in the...(read more)

Announcing CodeSmith Generator 6.5 Beta

ejsmith — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:29:00 GMT

We are excited to announce the CodeSmith Generator 6.5 Beta today. We continue to listen to the feedback from our users and have implemented several of the top requested features in this release. The primary feature for this release is the new standalone...(read more)

CodeSmith Generator Studio in CodeSmith Generator 6.0

ejsmith — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:03:00 GMT

Update: CodeSmith Generator 6.5 features a standalone editor. You can access it through the start menu shortcut. We have heard a lot of feedback that you guys love the new integrated editor inside of Visual Studio, but we have also heard from a lot of...(read more)

CodeSmith Generator 6.0-Intellisense Improvements

Blake Niemyjski — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:56:52 GMT

We recently released CodeSmith Generator 6.0.2 , which featured many usability and performance improvements to the Property Window and Editor Intellisense . We focused on bug reports as well as usability issues that we came across in the Template Editor...(read more)

New and Improved Generator Overview Video

Autumn Wilkins — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:43:00 GMT

Since launching Generator 6, we have been working on improving our documentation and videos. And, we recently just finished updating our 'Overview Video'. In the video you will see the power of our PLINQO framework which extends Microsoft's...(read more)

Version Control Improvements in CodeSmith Generator 6.0

ejsmith — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:43:22 GMT

In CodeSmith Generator 6.0 , we made some changes that will help users who are using exclusive checkout version control systems like TFS, Vault and SourceSafe. In the past, if you generated a bunch of files using CodeSmith Generator, it would overwrite...(read more)

CodeSmith Generator 6.0 Released!

Blake Niemyjski — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:18:00 GMT

We are very excited to announce the release of CodeSmith Generator 6.0 ! This release will be especially interesting to anyone who is actively editing their templates or creating new templates because the editing experience has been greatly improved ...(read more)

CodeSmith Generator 6.0: Debugging

Blake Niemyjski — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:53:00 GMT

One of the areas that we have been testing since we released the CodeSmith Generator 6.0 Release Candidate is Debugging Support . We feel that this has always been a key feature to the product and an area we want to make sure works well and is easy to...(read more)

CodeSmith Generator 6.0–Status, Website and Future

ejsmith — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:38:42 GMT

We are on the home stretch of Generator 6.0 and things have come together really nicely. This is going to be a great release! We have been mostly working on performance, memory utilization and bug fixes, and we are doing really good on all...(read more)

CodeSmith Generator 6.0 Release Candidate Released!

Blake Niemyjski — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:05:00 GMT

The CodeSmith team would like to start off by telling everyone thank you for all of your continued effort with testing and providing feedback for CodeSmith Generator 6.0. With this note, we would still love to hear your feedback on what you think of Generator...(read more)

How Does Premier Support Work?

Autumn Wilkins — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:45:00 GMT

So, what is Premier Support and how does it work? We get this question from time to time and I am here to clear up any questions you may have about it. Premier Support is a support option that can be added to any of our CodeSmith Generator licenses. With...(read more)

CodeSmith Generator 6.0 Beta 3 Released

Blake Niemyjski — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:47:00 GMT

Thank you for all the feedback on CodeSmith Generator 6.0 Beta 1 and 2! We have made a bunch of improvements like Go to Definition (still a little bit of work todo in this area) and have fixed over 80 bugs based on your feedback. We are happy to announce...(read more)

Unifying the CodeSmith Generator Experience

ejsmith — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:51:57 GMT

Over the years there has been a lot of confusion and complaints about the Standard edition of CodeSmith Generator. Here are just a few of the issues that we see with having two separate editions of CodeSmith Generator: Support requests with people...(read more)