Blogs

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 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...

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...

We are currently working on dogfooding the new template editor by updating and building some new templates. Along the way, we are trying to find and fix as many pain points as we possibly can. We are also working on profiling and memory usage reductions...

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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...

Let me start off on a modest note: I am not an expert on dependency injection. I am, however, certain of the value that it provides. TDD After having engaged in the same conversation time and time again, I have become convinced that there is indeed "one...

A few days ago, I decided to try to extend the Repeater Control, by adding an OnItemCommand, like the System.Web.UI.WebControl. Simple I thought. Shouldnt be that hard I thought. I couldnt have been more wrong. I have learned alot with the whole experience. I have learned about event bubbling, the way that events get passed up the control tree till they are handled by their parents. Iv learned about the way that items that are nested will need to be databound for the event to be fired, even if the data is being...

If you use Codesmith / Nettiers (recommended) you might have stumbled upon: You set up the Nettiers project in Codesmith and mark all tables. When you generate the code one or more entities are missing. There is no error message. Besides the entity/entities not showing up you see it in the SourceTables property of nettiers. When you started the template all were marked. When the template was finished one/more table/s were not marked any more. Reason: the tables are missing a primary key. I have spent hours on...