We have been working on a major update to the Generator CSLA Templates to support Views and Stored Procedures as well as CSLA 4.3. The following document will show you how you can take advantage of generating against stored procedures and views by updating...

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...

We have received lots of feedback on CodeSmith Generator 6.0 , and we would love if everyone continued to provide feedback. We use the feedback you provide to determine the areas we spend resources on. One of the key areas that we worked on since the...

Tonight I will be presenting at the Iowa .NET user group on Data Access Layer Optimization with PLINQO. We will cover how you can use advanced concepts like Batching, Caching, as well as query optimization, through the use of profiling, to ensure your...

We are very excited to announce that CodeSmith Generator 6.0 will feature a built-in Visual Studio CodeSmith Generator Template Editor on top of our existing Visual Studio Integration . The team has been hard at work integrating a new Template Editor...

The following guide will walk you through the basics on how-to extend the CodeSmith Generator PLINQO Templates to fit your custom development needs. In this example we will create a new Webpage for each entity that we generate. This page will contain...

Every now and then I need to create a new Oracle user to test the CodeSmith Generator OracleSchemaProvider. I wanted to outline the steps that I use to create a new user as well as change the password of an existing user. The first step one needs to take...

We have all been waiting for this day to come, and now it is finally here: Entity Framework has finally matured, and it is time to create some CodeSmith Generator templates for EF! We are excited to finally begin this project and we simple can not wait...

Overview After reading this document you will know how-to download, install and use the CodeSmith SDK in your applications. Download After logging into your account at http://www.codesmithtools.com click on the download button located near the top of...

Introduction CodeSmith Generator is a template based code generator for any ASCII language. It uses a syntax very similar to ASP.NET. This tutorial describes the process of building a template to generate SELECT/INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE stored procedures...

In the following example, I'll show you how to use the CodeSmith CSLA template's powerful renaming options. Many of you might have a legacy database with those ugly prefixes, or things you wish you could refactor but just can't. Luckily, you're...

In the previous article on how to use the partial methods in the CodeSmith CSLA templates to preserve custom code mostly focused on the code side of things. For those of you who might be using Stored Procedures might be wondering... How do I accomplish...

One of the best features of code generation is the reality of being able to actively generate you code while preserving custom changes. This allows you to implement custom logic while constantly making changes to your metadata and getting the latest template...

I came across this bug last night, which was occurring right as CSLA4 was released . It had to deal with the CodeSmith CSLA templates when you set UseMemberVariables to true. The error is quite obscure and not very intuitive as the signs of a bug are...

There may come a time where you need to rename a column in your generated entity for whatever reason. The following tip and trick article will show you how to quickly accomplish this. Let's assume you have a generated property for the column AccountId...

We recently released a new major version of the CSLA templates that add support for many new features including Visual Studio 2010, CSLA 4.0 and Silverlight 4.0 support. They can be downloaded here . When upgrading to the templates and you are going from...

We have been working with Microsoft over the past few months to ensure that CodeSmith works with Visual Studio 2010. The currently released version of CodeSmith 5.2.1 already supports Visual Studio 2010 Integration. Although the current support is titled...

During the development of our CodeSmith CSLA templates we have spent a lot time unit testing the generated code to ensure everything was working correctly. In the future we would like to generate basic CRUD unit tests for any project. We decided to unit...

We have released an updated CSLA Quickstart video which can be found here . This video focuses on the changes to the recently released CSLA v2.0 templates. We will be releasing more CSLA videos soon.

This article will help you upgrade your solutions templates safely and easily to the latest major or minor version. The latest templates can be found on our Google code project and the latest nightly build can be found here . The first thing to do is...

In a previous post I had mentioned that we added SQL CLR Stored procedures as well as SQL Functions in the release of CodeSmith 5.2. Since then there has been a few questions since then on how to add this to your existing templates. The great news is...

CodeSmith now supports SQL Functions and SQL CLR Functions with the release of CodeSmith 5.2. I will quickly show you how to add SQL Function support to your template. The first thing you need to do in order to use SQL Functions is to set the IncludeFunctions...

Recently I built a CodeSmith sample UITypeEditor that allows a user to enter in custom data into a DropDownList. In the following article I’ll show you what you need to do in order to build your own UITypeEditor. First you need to create a public...

During each release of CodeSmith, one thing we always do is test upgrade scenarios between each versions and check for backwards compatibility among other tests. Recently, I was amazed at how much change has taken place between CodeSmith 4.x and the latest...

Over a week ago we released our new CSLA Templates. I highly recommend everyone that uses CSLA to try them out as they will save you a ton of time. Also you'll notice very quickly that it follows the CSLA best practices and has other features that...