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CodeSmith 5.1 Released with New Lower Pricing Options!

Fri, 29 May 2009 11:30:00 GMT

CodeSmith is now offering personal licenses for individual developers at $199 (50% savings) when purchasing CodeSmith Professional. Put time back in your day with CodeSmith 5.1. Packed full of new Schema Providers, merge strategies, and updated CodeSmith project management, CodeSmith provides an even better code generation experience.

Does LINQ StinQ? Not with PLINQO!

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:46:19 GMT

PLINQO, which stands for Professional LINQ to Objects, is a collection of CodeSmith templates that are meant to replace and extend the LINQ to SQL designers that are included with Visual Studio 2008.

Sad Way To Do Business

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:01:03 GMT

how to make a bad impression with poor support and bad atitude and throw away thousands potential customers.

Foundation of Programming FREE EBook - CodeBetter.Com

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:46:05 GMT

The Foundation Of Programming Series Free ebook By Karl Seguin

Microsoft cracking down on community extensions

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:01:02 GMT

Microsoft released a tool called Microsoft Source Analyzer, or StyleCop. It analyzes source code for standards violations. It's a 1.0 release, so it doesn't do some things ... like have a published API for custom rules or MSBuild integration. So the community dug in and figured out how to do these things and now MS is firing off license-violation emails. Don't they get it? The community wants to use the product, but it's too limited ... these extensions help make it better.

NHIbernate 2.0 Goes Beta 1 after Microsoft 'Linq to Entities' receives

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:01:09 GMT

The first official beta for NHibernate 2.0 was released today. This comes on the heels of the damaging 'boycott' of the Microsoft 'Linq to Entities' upcoming release, which was anticipated to be a serious competitor to NHibernate. LAST MINUTE UPDATE FROM THE NHIBERNATE TEAM There has been a change in how NHibernate is packaged as the core and contrib aspects now have dedicated locations. Since NHibernate 2.0 Alpha 1, ONLY THE CORE of the project is included at the link above. The Contrib Projects are now in a dedicated location: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nhcontrib There are a few new projects that are essential to investigate for your needs (for example the Burrow project). Also be sure to visit the wiki for these significant projects: http://nhcontrib.wiki.sourceforge.net See the end of this post for a partial list of these contrib efforts. The team at domain.dot.net has been working with 2.0.X since the first alpha, and following the progress of the trunk. In our opinion this beta has the high quality of prior betas and we recommend it for non-critical systems immediately as your risk policy allows. We're working on a more detailed analysis coming soon on some of the key improvements. To download the code direct from the trunk use this SVN URL: https://nhibernate.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nhibernate This is no minor update, as with this release they will align with the widely used and praised 'Hibernate 3.2' for Java. Here is a listing of the planned new features which are represented to varying degrees of complexness in this beta:

The ASP.NET MVC Information Portal

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:46:02 GMT

A content aggregator of everything related to ASP.NET MVC

SVN Bridge 2.0 Released

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:16:03 GMT

Version 2.0 of SvnBridge has been released! This is a great tool for those of us who use TFS but love the SVN client TortoiseSVN.

EntitySpaces 2008 Alpha for CodeSmith Released

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:46:03 GMT

We are very excited to offer this Alpha release for those who want to get a head start with EntitySpaces 2008 (ES2008). This Alpha release supports only C# class generation from within CodeSmith, and only supports Microsoft SqlServer. A subsequent beta release will support CodeSmith, MyGeneration, C#/VB.NET classes, and all of our providers. The Alpha release comes with both .NET 2.0 and .NET 3.5 runtimes. The Alpha comes with the new, very powerful, SubQuery Enhancements to our DynamicQuery API.

Why asp.net MVC is so awesome.

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:16:03 GMT

The number one reason why asp.net MVC is the best thing ever.

EntitySpaces 2008 and CodeSmith Together At Last

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:53:49 GMT

Imagine never having to leave Visual Studio while creating and shaping your EntitySpaces based application. Simply pop into the "CodeSmith Explorer", right mouse on our "Master Template", execute it, include the newly generated files into your solution, compile, and you're off and running in a matter of a few minutes. So Sweet.

Visual Studio 2008 Performance Issues

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:46:03 GMT

Details about some performance issues that cropped up in Visual Studio 2008.

WPFpedia.com (The WPF Resource Guide) Launches

Thu, 17 May 2007 15:39:17 GMT

Actipro is extremely pleased to announce the launch of WPFpedia.com, a free community resource that was created to provide an organized one-stop resource guide for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) developers. It is a categorized list of over 300 links to various articles, blog posts, tools, and other WPF-related resources throughout the web.

CodeSmith 4.0 Public Beta 2 Released

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:01:02 GMT

CodeSmith 4.0 Beta 2 has been released and is now available to the public. Here are just a few the new capabilities in CodeSmith 4.0: * 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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Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:01:02 GMT

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