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Do you use code generation tools?

Asked 2008-09-27T15:43:36.647
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Do you use code-generation tools (aside from those used to generate proxies and from designers built-in to visual studio)?

What part(s) of your application do you generate?

Do you typically roll your own generator? If so, what type of generator do you write (asp templates, coddom etc.). If not, what 3rd party tools do you use?

I am currently working on a few different projects wich all use a custom code-generator that handles everything from generating the database structure, business entities, DAL, and BLL. I am curious about other peoples experiences are with these kinds of tools.

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We used to use CodeSmith to generate our NHibernate hbms, our entities, and a few other things. After a while we got sick of this flow so we ditched it.

The T4 generator is free and worth looking into for generation.

We still use the Castle CodeGenerator for MonoRail link generation.

answered 2008-09-27T15:50:44.227
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At a previous employer, we had a home-grown VB.NET application that would turn an XML Schema Definition file (XSD) into a static C++ library. This made it much easier to work with C++ data types (bool, std::string, etc.), and all of the interesting XML code was hidden inside of these generated classes.

answered 2008-09-27T15:57:23.197

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