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Adventures in CodeSmith...

I forgot to mention on the list that I'm also working on converting some of the CodeSmith templates for generating strongly-typed ArrayList collections from C# to VB.NET.  After some further adventures in the land of FxCop, I noticed that some of the conversion wasn't as close as it should have been so dug in a little deeper and now the VB.NET version is more FxCop friendly than the C# counterpart.  Still two messages and I'm not really sure how to easily rectify those; maybe after I get the templates built I'll look into it a little deeper. 

Also, I'm sure that I'm driving Eric up the wall with all of the VB'isms, but I do think it's an awesome tool and the more VB friendly he can make it... the better he can target a much larger audience than he has today (not knowing the specific numbers, but I hear that VB.NET is still a much larger user base than C#).

Published Thursday, June 17, 2004 8:49 PM by CorySmith
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# re: Adventures in CodeSmith...

Friday, June 18, 2004 10:18 AM by Brian Broom
I've looked at the templates you mentioned before, they seem to work well. In fact, the only thing I don't like is that it is hard to figure out what they are really doing. Do you know of any descriptions of what they are doing? Not so much in a specific sense, but why define an inherited interface and some of the design issues. It seems to be fairly hard to find information on doing data access without datasets.

# re: Adventures in CodeSmith...

Saturday, June 19, 2004 11:52 AM by Cory Smith
I'm not sure there's any sort of documentation for the templates. My only suggestion would be to look over the VB.NET version (which is probably a little easier to read) and failing that contact Eric Smith directly (http://www.ericjsmith.net).
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