After half a year of grinding hard work, already releasing
.netTiers 2.0 a couple months ago and finally, today, we released
CodeSmith 4.0.
I really believe that the community will enjoy many of the new features in both products and hopefully we'll receive some great feedback.
Favorites The concept of CodeSmith Projects inside of Visual Studio is my absolute favorite, and really believe that it will change the landscape of the development process we use today. I really think some really smart folks are going to come out with some really creative ways to use CSP's. I can't wait to see them.
ActiveSnippets are smokin' hot and I predict will be the feature everyone will ask, why didn't we already have that? It only makes all the sense in the world.
From the press release: Here are some of the features in the new version of CodeSmith:
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.Published with BlogMailr