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CodeSmith 4.0 Introduction to some of the new features on CodeSmith Studio 4.0

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. After creating an alias for your ActiveSnippet, you can execute it...

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. Using an ActiveSnippet demonstrates the power of the CodeSmith and...

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. When you build your templates, you will automatically...

CodeSmith Maps (.csmap) - This feature will allow you to create dictionary style maps of things like SQL to C# data type mappings. You no longer have to create those longs swtich/case statements for type conversions!

CodeSmith Maps (.csmap) - This feature will allow you to create dictionary style maps of things like SQL to C# data type mappings. In this example we will be converting from the .net System Type, to the csharp alias types. If they don't exist, then we want it to return the original value. For example...

Extended Property Management - You can now edit and add new schema extended properties inside of CodeSmith Studio. This is a very powerful way to add custom meta-data to the already feature rich meta-data that SchemaExplorer provides.

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. Configuring an ActiveSnippet is easy and can be done from within Visual...

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. Configuring an ActiveSnippet is easy and can be done from within Visual...

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. Step 1 of an ActiveSnippet is to create a CodeSmith Template. This...

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. Adding Default Values for parameters that you don't want to expose...

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. Type CTRL-E + CTRL-R to see ActiveSnippet Usage.

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. You can control the behavior CodeSmith Projects by...

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. CodeSmith Projects integrate directly into Visual Studio...

These outputs can be of different templates with a single output or a single template with many outputs, or many templates with n outputs!

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. Using a CodeSmith Project you can now manage being...