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 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...

I thought the best way to show our progress so far would be to show you a quick video of the new editor in action. So without further adieu, here is the new CodeSmith Generator 6.0 editor: In general, I think our editing experience is already about 10...

We have been making great progress on CodeSmith Generator 6.0 and would love to get some feedback on our new template engine, template runner UI and new property grid (more on this soon). As I mentioned in a previous post , we have completely re-written...

Work on Generator 6.0 is progressing pretty nicely. We are code complete on our new parser, new compiler, new caching mechanism, out of process template execution, and WPF based property grid. There is a lot to talk about there, but I have also started...

In this post I’m going to talk about how the new template parser in CodeSmith Generator 6.0 creates an AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) and then uses the visitor pattern to iterate over the nodes in the AST and do transformations. The grammar rules I talked...

I am currently working on the new parser for CodeSmith Generator 6.0. When I wrote the original template parser back in 2004, I really had no idea what I was doing. :-) I had no idea what an AST was or what an LL(*) parser was, etc. That being said, I...

CodeSmith Tools is excited to announce the upcoming release of our new product, CodeSmith Insight, and we would like to invite you to come celebrate! Join us at the Addison Conference Center‎ on Tuesday, October 12th, from 6pm to 9pm, for the: CodeSmith...

This Thursday July 9th, Shannon Davidson and Tom DuPont will be talking about PLINQO at the Dallas .NET Users Group at Microsoft's Las Colinas Office in Irving, Texas. If you are in the area, we would love for you to stop by and see what PLINQO is...

Really nice set of new templates: http://www.codeplex.com/nusoftframework "The NuSoft Framework is an extensible business and data layer framework. It is built as a set of CodeSmith templates. The templates generate a strongly typed C# domain model...

Using merge strategies in CodeSmith enables you to combine both user and machine generated code in a single file. You can also regenerate the machine generated code while still preserving your custom code modifications. CodeSmith comes with two types...

CodeSmith 4.0 has been officially released today at the Dev Connections conference in Las Vegas! This is a huge release for us and has a bunch of great new features as well as countless minor enhancements and bug fixes all based on customer feedback....

CodeSmith 4.0 Beta 2 has been released and is now available to the public. Here are just a few the new capabilities in CodeSmith 4.0: CodeSmith Projects (.csp) - This feature makes automating your code generation process really easy and consistent whether...

CodeSmith will have a booth at Dev Connections in Las Vegas next month and we thought it would be a lot of fun to give away some gambling money! If you are coming to Dev Connections, just make sure to stop by our booth and signup. If you aren't coming...

Mike Gunderloy has just posted a new article about XML-based Code Generation with CodeSmith over at Developer.com . Mike does a great job of explaining the new XmlProperty feature in CodeSmith and how powerful it can be in using XML as metadata for your...

CodeSmith has won the "Best Utility" award in the asp.netPRO Readers’ Choice Awards! Thanks to our incredible user base, CodeSmith was able to win this category that included many other great software development products. Thank you to...

CodeSmith has won the "Best Utility" award in the asp.netPRO Readers’ Choice Awards! Thanks to our incredible user base, CodeSmith was able to win this category that included many other great software development products. Thank you to everyone...

“Scott talks about CodeSmith as well as other code generators, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses, and offering his usual insight into the issues. Of course, resources abound.” http://www.hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showid=20

“Scott talks about CodeSmith as well as other code generators, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses, and offering his usual insight into the issues. Of course, resources abound.” http://www.hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showid=20

If you are a fan of CodeSmith and would like to show your support, please take a moment to place your vote for CodeSmith in the Utility category of the asp.netPRO Readers’ Choice Awards. Each year, asp.netPRO recognizes outstanding products and...

If you are a fan of CodeSmith and would like to show your support, please take a moment to place your vote for CodeSmith in the Utility category of the asp.netPRO Readers’ Choice Awards. Each year, asp.netPRO recognizes outstanding products and vendors...

“In this article you will learn how to build a Data Access Layer using Microsoft’s Enterprise Library in less than 15 minutes using CodeSmith and the .NetTiers Template Library…” Build a Data Access Layer in less than 15 minutes

CodeSmith 3.2 for .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 has now been released. This is a free upgrade for all CodeSmith 3.0 users. This version of CodeSmith is nearly identical to CodeSmith 3.1 except it has been optimized and built for .NET 2.0 and Visual...

Here is a link to an interesting article about using CodeSmith as a form of XSLT.

CodeSmith Tools will have a booth at PDC this year! Be sure to stop by and say "Hi" next week at booth #122 . If you are a current CodeSmith customer, we have CodeSmith t-shirts for you (first come, first serve) and if you aren't a current...