Re: In praise of T4 code generation

2013-10-15 Thread Thomas Koster
Hi group, On Saturday, 12 October 2013, Greg Keogh wrote: ...so I decided to use T4 templates to generate it all. I'm really happy with the results and this post is basically just a reminder that in my opinion, good old fashioned code generation still has a place in the modern world. I

Re: In praise of T4 code generation

2013-10-15 Thread Corneliu I. Tusnea
Thomas, Never had an issue with generated code from T4. All our generated code also resides in source control so the moment you touched the .tt you also modified the .generated and you push the together in the repo. During a merge the same rules apply as any other merge, merge both .tt and the

Re: In praise of T4 code generation

2013-10-15 Thread Nathan Schultz
It just so happens I was looking at this very thing last week. I'm currently still relying on the old free MyGeneration for code generation. Nothing like being able to make List and CRUD screens, business objects, and data-access components within a few minutes from a database table and a bit of

Re: In praise of T4 code generation

2013-10-13 Thread Grant Maw
I gave up on T4 in frustration a long time ago. We use CodeSmith - we find it easy to use and quick to get things done. Having read this, might look at T4 again now and see if it's improved. On 12 October 2013 18:14, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Folks, A few years ago I wrote (or rewrote) a

Re: In praise of T4 code generation

2013-10-13 Thread Greg Keogh
I gave up on T4 in frustration a long time ago. We use CodeSmith - we find it easy to use and quick to get things done. Having read this, might look at T4 again now and see if it's improved. I'm actually a licensed owner of CodeSmith 5.2, which I purchased a few years ago so I could use it

Re: In praise of T4 code generation

2013-10-13 Thread Corneliu I. Tusnea
Greg, I love T4 as well. A Massive part of my project is build around very custom T4 code generation that was all nicely coded to output very good, reliable and repeable bits of code that helps us mostly around some complex serializations. It would be great it VS would include a nice T4 editor by

Re: In praise of T4 code generation

2013-10-13 Thread Greg Keogh
I love T4 as well. Thank heavens, I was starting to think I was a deviant. The first Tangible addons occasionally crashed on me too, but for the last year or more I've been keeping updated and can't recall any problems in that time, but, my demands are probably modest compared to yours -- Greg

In praise of T4 code generation

2013-10-12 Thread Greg Keogh
Folks, A few years ago I wrote (or rewrote) a quite large WPF Desktop app, it's my hobby app like a lot of us have. It maintains RDB tables of the music, books, video, etc in the household. This app was started in Access 2.0 back in 1992 and I think it's gone through at least 6 generations of