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Efficient Nettiers Deepload - Filling object graphs in just one database call

CodeSmith on NewsGator Online — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:32:00 GMT

After using several ORM's I found that when need a complete object graph or some related entities (INNER/LEFT JOIN "like") they haven't an efficient approach built-in. Almost all ORM can lazy load related properties (collections or instances...(read more)

Karim Ainsworth: Extending LINQ to SQL with PLINQO

CodeSmith on NewsGator Online — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:50:53 GMT

Enter PLINQO . PLINQO ( Professional LINQ to Objects ) is a set of CodeSmith templates that wrap and extend LINQ to SQL functionality. This has been a godsend for me, I have been using PLINQO for only a week now and it has already saved ... Karim Ainsworth...(read more)

SharePoint productivity templates for CodeSmith

CodeSmith on NewsGator Online — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:13:00 GMT

For quite some time I have been busy with trying to increase my productivity while working on SharePoint solutions. In the last two years I helped design a couple of tools and developed a few of them myself: all that to simplify the most common tasks...(read more)

A Gentle Introduction to .NET Code Generation

CodeSmith on NewsGator Online — Sat, 30 May 2009 12:43:02 GMT

Products like Tier Builder, Code Smith , My Generation etc are based on the template approach. This is similar to XSLT. You pass metadata about the code that you want to generate through your templates and the various engines will ......(read more)

Chris Love's Official ASP.NET Blog : I Love Code Generation – Why ...

CodeSmith on NewsGator Online — Sat, 23 May 2009 15:33:00 GMT

This is real code generated from a Code Smith template, which is in the screen shot above. I did not have to write one single character in this method by hand. Public Function Getinforeqs(ByVal vActive As Boolean) As List(Of ......(read more)

Sr. Software Developer - Emergent Professional Resource - Friendswood, TX

CodeSmith on NewsGator Online — Fri, 01 May 2009 05:39:27 GMT

triggers) TFS (Team Foundation Server) WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) BizTalk (Desired) CodeSmith (Desired... Job Tools... Apply... From Monster - save job, email, more... This item provided by biztalk Jobs | Indeed.com...(read more)

tsJensen.com - PLINQO a Better LINQ to SQL

CodeSmith on NewsGator Online — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:47:30 GMT

So I too a second look at PLINQO and CodeSmith 5.0, something I had considered some time ago but had decided against because I felt it was not sufficiently mature for our team's use. I wanted to see if the dev team had matured the ... tsJensen.com...(read more)

Arno's Software Development Weblog: Codegeneration With CodeSmith

CodeSmith on NewsGator Online — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:32:00 GMT

I then found Tom DuPont's Codesmith templates for NHibernate, which were a nice starting point. I added some functionality, e.g. self-referring database relationships, and of course I had to adapt the output to our needs. ......(read more)

Strong typing views in ASP.NET MVC

CodeSmith on NewsGator Online — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:01:00 GMT

Did you ever wonder why do you have to write code like: public ActionResult SomeAction() { ... return View( "SomeView" , model); } instead of this beauty: public ActionResult SomeAction() { ... return Views.Home.SomeAction(model); } Note the...(read more)

The glory of CodeSmith and code generation

CodeSmith on NewsGator Online — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:34:21 GMT

Like most people I do not like doing many of the repetititive tasks and so use CodeSmith to help me out. I had cleared its stats counter before starting this module and was shocked to find that as-of today it had already generated more ......(read more)

How to integrate Generated code into your application [timstall ...

CodeSmith on NewsGator Online — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:00:00 GMT

InsertRegion - Insert your generated code into a marked region of a custom file; PreserveRegion - Insert your custom code into a code-generated file. You could also integrate CodeSmith into your builds and processes by calling the ......(read more)

Things to CodeGenerate besides the Data Access Layer

CodeSmith on NewsGator Online — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 05:00:00 GMT

CodeSmith is a powerful code generator (worth its weight in gold). And while one of the most popular things to automatically generate is the data access layer, there's a lot more to CodeSmith than just wrapping databases: System data - Given an xml...(read more)

Does LINQ StinQ? Not with PLINQO! « Technimusings

CodeSmith on NewsGator Online — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:53:44 GMT

I’ve used other ORM frameworks from CodeSmith before, particularly NetTiers . I believe in the value of code-generation when it’s implemented properly. One of the most important attributes of a good code-gen tool is that it lets you ......(read more)

Introducing SNARF

CodeSmith on NewsGator Online — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:10:00 GMT

I'm now part of two open source project, although this one I really want to be hands off. So if anyone is interested in taking it over, feel free. Here's a description from google code: SNARF (Simple, Nhibernate, ActiveRecord Framework) This is...(read more)

CodeSmith Code Generator - Code Generation within Visual Studio 2008

CodeSmith on NewsGator Online — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:30:00 GMT

Depending on the situation, template-based code generators can be invaluable... This item provided by David Hayden - Florida .NET Developer - C# and SQL Server...(read more)