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.netTiers NDDNUG Presentation

I will be giving a presentation at the North Dallas .Net Users Group(NDDNUG) meeting on March 5, 2007 for those that want to attend. Half the session will actually go in depth into the framework for those really wanting to hit some of the more undocumented areas of the framework and generation process. I'll post any presentation materials here afterward as well as a permanent home. Hope to see you there.

Session Information:

Designing Frameworks Using NetTiers
By Robert Hinojosa
Discover how working with Code Generation in your Microsoft .NET Applications can substantially cut time to market using .netTiers. .netTiers is a set of open source code generation templates that simplify the tasks of creating a customized application framework in minutes.

The presentation will give an overview of using code generation over an existing database, and instantly after generation see an application framework in place so that you can immediately use fully functional web based administration tool, Data API, WebServices, including using Customized Strongly Typed DataSource Controls based on your Entities. .netTiers strives on using best practices, software patterns, and trying to use many 3rd party tools such as Enterprise Library, CAB, and WCF, we will explore some of those options and explain why integration with these tools are important. Even if .netTiers is not an option for you, it serves as an excellent guide for rising developers wanting to create their own application framework from scratch.

posted Monday, March 05, 2007 2:30 PM by rhinojosa | 0 Comments

Woohoo! Releasing is Fun.

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.

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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.

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posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 3:25 PM by rhinojosa | 0 Comments

CodeSmith and DevConnections

Looks like Eric is getting so anxious about CodeSmith Tool's presence at Dev Connections, he decided to give away money, just to seal the deal and CodeSmith, Vegas Style!!!

Yes, I used CodeSmith as a verb, if you haven't tried it, I highly recommend it.

Let's see, I learned this one in grade school:

   CodeSmith Tools 
+  Surprises 
+  $ 5,000 
+  Dev Connections
+  Vegas 
+  Vegas
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House Money & Then Some!

Start playing with the house's money early and visit the CodeSmith Tool's Booth while you're there.

posted Monday, October 09, 2006 4:51 PM by rhinojosa | 5 Comments
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