CodeSmith 4.0 Public Beta Released

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 you are working from inside of Visual Studio 2005, MSBuild, Windows Explorer, a command line / batch file, or CodeSmith itself.
• ActiveSnippets - Imagine Visual Studio 2005 snippets, but with the full power of CodeSmith available to execute any logic or access any complex metadata (including database schema and xml data) to control the output of your snippets.
• CodeSmith Maps (.csmap) - This feature will allow you to create dictionary style maps of things like SQL to C# data type mappings.
• .netTiers 2.0 - The .netTiers templates have been greatly enhanced and included with CodeSmith 4.0.
• Extended Property Management - You can now edit and add new schema extended properties inside of CodeSmith Studio.
• Property Persistence - CodeSmith now remembers the property values from the last time you executed a template.
• Click here for a detailed list of changes

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** IMPORTANT: If you have a previous CodeSmith 4.0 beta installed, please uninstall that first before installing beta 2.

CodeSmith 4.0 is designed to be installed side-by-side with CodeSmith 3.x so that you can use CodeSmith 3.x and CodeSmith 4.x at the same time.

Support / Feedback

The user guide has not been updated to reflect the CodeSmith 4.0 features yet, but please feel free to ask any questions you may have.  Please submit any issues or feedback using one of the following:

Email: Contact Support
Forum: http://community.codesmithtools.com/Beta_Forums/f/39.aspx

Screenshots

http://www.codesmithtools.com/product/generator

Getting Started

For instructions on some things to try in CodeSmith 4.0, view the getting started guide.