How do you properyly maintain generated code?

Hi, I just recently used the NetTiers architecture in one of our projects. We're using Visual Source Safe for our source control and I just wanted to ask what is the easiest way of maintaing the generated codes. Because right now what I'm doing is regenerate the NetTier layers (Entities, DataAccess, DataAccess.SqlClient) whenever we modify our database, then I would open our solution and over write all the existing classes in the NetTier layers. Is this a good approach? Any other suggestions?

Thanks,

Jon
 

Hi

 I have been working over the last couple of days to automate this process using MSBuild and the MSBuild Community Tasks Project that have one custom tasks for MSBuild in regard to checkin , checkout, undocheckout etc. So far in our project we can checkout all files from the SourceSafe Repository , run the NetTiers generation and then check those files back in from MSBuild. We have still have some problems in that the Project Files (csproj ) are not being checked back in to Source Safe, however we live in hope that we can solve that problem If we can get this working well, then I will post the files.

 Peter

I'd certainlt be interested in your buikld scripts when you get them working fully - as I currently have to checkin/out manually and VSS is a royal pain in the a$$.

swin

 Peter,

Did you ever get your scripts working completely?

Could you post on here (or send to me).

Thanks

swin