Code Generators: when can you live with them?

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re: Code Generators: when can you live with them?

rilcy — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:37:33 GMT

Hi,

Nice, informative, post.

Though I'm definitely late catching up on that one, I'd like to share with you my experience with building what I think is a pretty "agile" code generator in the context of a DSL -VS 2K5 SDK- (which mostly targets the technical, "plumbing", layers -much less the business ones) of three-tier WinForms/.NET remoting/SQL back office applications. The code generator commands are invoked from a "crafted-once-for-all" simple dialog box that you bring up within the designer via a contextual right-click on the instance model's items (or on the white model root background).

As the main user of my tool (e.g., as I'm also an application developer) I found that approach pretty handy. For this target architecture above, I generate what I think is about 95% of the code -- remaining handcrafted code mostly is about business rules and business process specifics that cannot not be modelled yet, because of natural language-written specs).

Of course, the generated code compiles without warnings nor errors, and runs on the three tiers, right after the code generation.

Feel free to let me know if you wish to know more about the code generator's code specifics themselves. But I plan to eventually make a paper about it anyway.

My two cents.

re: Code Generators: when can you live with them?

raca — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:35:24 GMT

I would like to make a software factory or some DSL tools for Dotnetnuke custom development.

I would be very interested in finding more about your code generator. I used Codesmith and added extensions that allowed me to do code regeneration via Preserve region code regions.

I would like to use latest VS 2008 software factories to achieve project items and code.

My email is radoslavATeverestkcDOTnet

Thanks

Rad