I’ll be speaking on August 31st at the Sacramento .net Users Group about code generation with Visual Studio 2010 . We have had access to various techniques for code generation for almost as long as most of us have been writing software, although how many...

I’ll be attending the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, CA from September 13 to September 15th and will be blogging about the conference and some of the sessions I’ll be attending. Microsoft will be presenting, alongside Intel engineers, in several...

I have been spending some time recently working with the Windows Phone 7 development tools and thought I’d start blogging more about writing applications for the forthcoming Windows Phone 7 platform. I was asked a question this morning about how you might...

Visual Studio 2010 uses T4 text templates for code generation and within this blog post we’ll examine the anatomy of a text template and see how easily code and other text can be generated. Let’s take a look at an example in Visual Studio, we’ll create...

I have been reading Programming Windows Azure by Sriram Krishnan and have found it to be an excellent book technically, while also a very entertaining read. Sriram works on the Windows Azure program management team and has been involved with Windows Azure...

Imagine you have just generated some code using a code generation technique, wouldn’t it be really cool to then programmatically call the C# language compiler and generate assemblies from the generated code? Let’s imagine we used an Xslt transformation...

I’ll be presenting this Wednesday at the east bay chapter of the Bay.NET User Group where we’ll be taking a look at techniques for code generation in Visual Studio 2010, from uncovering the anatomy of code snippets, item templates, and project templates;...