CodeSmith 4.0 Change History

Build 4.0.0 (Beta 2)
  * All CodeSmith samples and documents are now stored in the user's My Documents folder.
  * All config data is now stored in the user's profile directory.
  * CodeSmith should now work in non-admin scenerios and in Vista with UAC turned on.
  * ActiveSnippets will now show usage information when you press CTRL-E, CTRL-R or when a template is invalid.
  * ActiveSnippets now properly indents the output based on the indentation of the alias.
  * Fixed various bugs in CodeSmith Explorer that were causing it to do random full refreshes.
  * Added drag and drop support to CodeSmith Explorer control.
  * Added PropertyChanged event to CodeTemplate.
  * Added OnChanged attributes to Property and XmlProperty directives.
  * Updated CSLA.NET templates to the newest versions targetting CSLA 2.0.
  * Added DbSnapshot templates to the samples.
  * Added NHibernate templates to the samples.
  * Added recent news to the CodeSmith Studio start page.
  * Made .csmap files open in the map editor tool window when inside Studio.
  * Changed .csmap double-click in Studio to open the map in the map editor tool window.
  * Changed .csp double-click in Studio to run the ManageOutputs dialog.
  * Corrected WilsonORMapper/MappingFile.cst naming conflict
  * Added Find More links to Map Editor and ActiveSnippet configuration form.
  * Made it so that ColumnSchema is usable with ActiveSnippets.
  * Fixed bug in extended property editor that would crash CodeSmith when right-clicking.
  * ActiveSnippets has been updated to use file extensions to resolve aliases and works in all file types.
  * Changed templates using StringUtility to use StringUtil instead.
  * Set the |DataDirectory| variable for connection strings to the user's My Documents\CodeSmith\Samples\v4.0\Data directory.
  * Auto-retry on failed config save attempts.
  * Made the ActiveSnippetForm save propertyset values in the save method because the values weren't always being updated correctly.
  * Fixed various spelling mistakes.
  * Made it so the splash form in Studio will not stay up over top of error messages making Studio look like it is locked up.
  * Fixed a bug in configuration system where file handles weren't being properly released and was causing problems trying to save config data.
  * Fixed several minor bugs in map editor.
  * Fixed tab index on various forms.

Build 4.0.0 (Beta 1)
  * CodeSmith Project support (.csp files).  This replaces property sets, the custom tool and the batch format.
    - CodeSmith Projects can be run from the command prompt, inside MSBuild, inside CodeSmith Studio, and inside Windows Explorer.
    - Inside of Visual Studio, any outputs that are generated will automatically be added to your project.
    - If you build your project, your outputs will automatically be re-generated.
    - Progress dialog is shown when running from Windows Explorer.
    - GUI dialogs to easily manage your project file.
    - Easily add new outputs where you select a template and specify the property values.
    - You can also specify merge settings through the GUI to enable code merging support.
  * ActiveSnippet support.  This will allow you to type something like:  "dbprops CodeSmithTools.dbo.Customer" inside of Visual Studio and then hit the expand key (CTRL-E-E by default) and it will expand out into a list of property getters/setters and member variables based on the fields and data types of the Customer table.
  * CodeSmith Map support (.csmap files).  This feature will allow you to create dictionary style maps of things like SQL to C# data type mappings.
    - Example: <%@ Map Name="CSharpTypeAlias" Src="CSharpTypeAlias.csmap" Description="Maps system types to C# aliases." %>
    - Ability to reverse the map and use the values as the map keys.  This is useful for doing reverse lookups.
    - Ability to return the key value if a cooresponding map entry is not found.
    - Ability to return a default value if a cooresponding map entry is not found.
    - Ability to manage maps inside CodeSmith Studio or from Windows Explorer.
  * Ability to manage database schema extended property values from inside of CodeSmith Studio.
  * XmlProperty support has been enhanced to handle more variations of XSD.
  * Template property values are saved for templates so that each time you run them, you don’t have to reset the values manually.
  * .netTiers 2.0 templates are included in the install.
  * Added drag and drop file support to the CodeSmith Explorer control.
  * Added PropertyChanged event to CodeTemplate.
  * Added OnChanged attribute to the Property and XmlProperty directives to allow wiring up property change event handlers.
  * Added csxsd.exe to allow manually creating shared XmlProperty assemblies.
  * Ton of new system extended properties added to SchemaExplorer objects.
  * CodeSmith has been updated to support non-admin users.
  * Bunch of performance improvements here and there throughout CodeSmith.
  * Bunch of bug fixes.