In code generation, metadata is the information about your application, generally about your database and definitions to express your data as business objects. If you use Entity Framework, your metadata is the edmx file which is displayed via the designers. If you’re using CodeSmith, the metadata is more subtle. Metadata can also be about the process itself. CodeBreeze in particular has a very rich set and extensible set of information about your application. Since metadata itself is data – i
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