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A set of Codesmith tempalates to create the data base structure, stored procedures and Data Access Layer for the implementation Celko's Nested Set structure to map trees in SQL

I am looking to do some TypeScript code generation with CodeSmith and I’d like to use PreserveMerge merging strategy (preserve merge preserves your custom code within generated code between regenerations). CodeSmith’s merging mechanism is powerful and flexible (besides preserve it supports insert merge strategy as well. But if you feel constrained then feel free to create your own merging strategy ). Out of the box it supports C#, VB.NET, XML and T-SQL start region and end region notation. This is a problem...

The situation Imagine a scenario where you have a JSON service that returns data and you'd like to have it strongly typed on javascript powered client side. Let's say there is an ASP.NET MVC application that goes by the name MvcApplication33 (yes, the 33rd in a row of test applications) . There are two models in there in two files under Models folder: namespace MvcApplication33.Models { public class Customer { public string Name { get; set; } public string Surname { get; set; } public int Age { get;...

We are happy to announce Generator support for DB2 . With the help of David Logan we were able to add a new DB2 Schema Provider that ships with the latest version of Generator. You can now generate using the Schema Explorer API and existing templates...

Today I'm happy to announce an upcoming feature for one of the most customer requested template editor features: Bracket Highlighting! Bracket Highlighting Bracket Highlighting creates visible highlights around sets of delimiters (parentheses, square...

New Features Improved XmlProperty Intellisense. Added the ability for the Server edition to consume the Generator API. Bug Fixes Fixed a bug where a NullReferenceException could be thrown when the XmlProperty Schema attribute value was empty. Download...

New Features Added beta support for Visual Studio 2012 themes. Bug Fixes Fixed a bug where the Template Editor font size would be displayed incorrectly inside of Visual Studio 2012. Fixed a bug where the Visual Studio 2012 snippets were not being detected...

New Features Increased support for Visual Studio 2012. Added DB2 zOS Schema Provider (contrib David Logan and Blake Niemyjski). Added the ability to change a templates template code's background color. Added the ability the ability to disable or enable...

Bug Fixes Fixed a bug where assemblies were not being resolved correctly when Visual Studio 2012 / .NET 4.5 was installed. Download Please contact support for access to CodeSmith Generator 6.0.5.

Improvements Updated all client builds. Please update your clients to the latest version. Added support for ReplyTo emails. Added Version custom field type. Added support for searching by major or minor version custom field type values (E.G., version...