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How-to: Upgrade your PLINQO or CSLA templates

This article will help you upgrade your solutions templates safely and easily to the latest major or minor version. The latest templates can be found on our Google code project and the latest nightly build can be found here . The first thing to do is...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2010 2:35 AM by Blake Niemyjski

Filed under: CodeSmith, how-to, CSLA, PLINQO

How-to: Use SQL CLR Functions and Functions in your CodeSmith templates.

In a previous post I had mentioned that we added SQL CLR Stored procedures as well as SQL Functions in the release of CodeSmith 5.2. Since then there has been a few questions since then on how to add this to your existing templates. The great news is...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2010 9:44 PM by Blake Niemyjski

Filed under: CodeSmith, how-to, Tips & Tricks

How-to: CodeSmith and SQL Functions.

CodeSmith now supports SQL Functions and SQL CLR Functions with the release of CodeSmith 5.2. I will quickly show you how to add SQL Function support to your template. The first thing you need to do in order to use SQL Functions is to set the IncludeFunctions...

Published Sun, Dec 12 2009 9:51 PM by Blake Niemyjski

Filed under: .Net, SQL Server 2005, CodeSmith, SQL Server 2008, how-to, CLR

How-to: Build a custom UITypeEditor

Recently I built a CodeSmith sample UITypeEditor that allows a user to enter in custom data into a DropDownList. In the following article I’ll show you what you need to do in order to build your own UITypeEditor. First you need to create a public...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2009 12:00 AM by Blake Niemyjski

Filed under: C#, .Net, User Interfaces, CodeSmith

It's the littlest of things that we do, that make CodeSmith shine.

During each release of CodeSmith, one thing we always do is test upgrade scenarios between each versions and check for backwards compatibility among other tests. Recently, I was amazed at how much change has taken place between CodeSmith 4.x and the latest...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2009 7:25 AM by Blake Niemyjski

Filed under: .Net, User Interfaces, CodeSmith

CodeSmith CSLA Templates v1.0 released!

Over a week ago we released our new CSLA Templates. I highly recommend everyone that uses CSLA to try them out as they will save you a ton of time. Also you'll notice very quickly that it follows the CSLA best practices and has other features that...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2009 5:40 AM by Blake Niemyjski

Filed under: CodeSmith, CSLA

Tips & Tricks: Debugging CodeSmith on Microsoft Windows 7

We have updated the Tips & Tricks: Debugging CodeSmith with the changes needed to debug on Windows7. Here is the quick overview of what you need to-do to enable debugging on a Microsoft Windows 7 machine: Update the Just-In-Time debugger setting DbgJITDebugLaunchSetting...

Published Wed, Jun 06 2009 3:46 AM by Blake Niemyjski

Filed under: CodeSmith, Tips & Tricks

CodeSmith CSLA templates - Part 2: The quick start

In Part 1: The introduction was an overview of the CodeSmith CSLA templates we are developing at CodeSmith . In this post, I am going to go over how to use the CSLA quick start and the new improvements resulting from customer feedback (Keep the feedback...

Published Thu, May 05 2009 9:00 AM by Blake Niemyjski

Filed under: CodeSmith, CSLA

A fix for the Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 Fatal Execution Error (VS Silent Death Bug).

We released CodeSmith 5.1 with the new requirements of the Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 . One of our experiences in upgrading to the .Net Framework 3.5 is issues we have run into like our customers reporting Visual Studio disapearing or closing extremely...

Published Wed, May 05 2009 6:00 AM by Blake Niemyjski

Filed under: .Net, Visual Studio 2005, CodeSmith, Visual Studio 2008

CodeSmith 5.1 Released

On May 6th we released CodeSmith 5.1. This update brings in many welcoming changes, to name a few: .netTiers 2.3, PLINQO 3.0. Also CodeSmith and now requires that the .NET 3.5 Framework is installed before CodeSmith installs. Final Updated installer to...

Published Tue, May 05 2009 9:20 PM by Blake Niemyjski

Filed under: CodeSmith

CodeSmith CSLA templates - Part 1: Introduction

I've been working on CSLA templates periodically over the past few months at CodeSmith Tools . We have designed the templates from the ground up around the CSLA.NET Framework version 3.6.2. You might be thinking what's the big deal it's just...

Published Fri, Apr 04 2009 8:46 AM by Blake Niemyjski

Filed under: CodeSmith, CSLA

.netTiers 2.3.0 Beta 2

The .netTiers team released .netTiers 2.3.0 Beta 2 today. .netTiers 2.3.0 is a maintenance release containing many bug fixes and patches. We have also added various requested features like Enterprise Library version 4.1 as well as support for Visual Studio...

Published Sun, Nov 11 2008 11:13 AM by Blake Niemyjski

Filed under: CodeSmith, .netTiers, Oracle

Tips & Tricks: Connecting to an Oracle Schema with CodeSmith

Sometimes User interfaces can't provide a solution for every scenario where you might need additional functionality by customization. One area where you might come across this is if you're trying to use Oracle on an 64bit machine or in a custom...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2008 3:20 AM by Blake Niemyjski

Filed under: CodeSmith, Tips & Tricks, Oracle

Tips & Tricks: CodeSmith Template Encoding.

There may be a time when you need to use Extended ASCII Codes in your CodeSmith templates. If you have already tried using them into your template you have more than likely ran into the following problem. When a user first creates a template an Encoding...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2008 5:26 AM by Blake Niemyjski

Filed under: CodeSmith, Tricks, Tips &amp

Tips & Tricks: Manually uninstalling CodeSmith.

I've come across a few issues, where a CodeSmith install might become corrupt when going from a beta to RTM. The following guide will show you how to successfully remove CodeSmith from your computer. Please allow 10 to 15 minutes of your time to complete...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2008 3:39 AM by Blake Niemyjski

Filed under: .Net, CodeSmith, Tips & Tricks, Windows Installer

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How-to: Upgrade your PLINQO or CSLA templates

How-to: Use SQL CLR Functions and Functions in your CodeSmith templates.

How-to: CodeSmith and SQL Functions.

How-to: Build a custom UITypeEditor

It's the littlest of things that we do, that make CodeSmith shine.

CodeSmith CSLA Templates v1.0 released!

Tips & Tricks: Debugging CodeSmith on Microsoft Windows 7

CodeSmith CSLA templates - Part 2: The quick start

A fix for the Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 Fatal Execution Error (VS Silent Death Bug).

CodeSmith 5.1 Released

CodeSmith CSLA templates - Part 1: Introduction

.netTiers 2.3.0 Beta 2

Tips & Tricks: Connecting to an Oracle Schema with CodeSmith

Tips & Tricks: CodeSmith Template Encoding.

Tips & Tricks: Manually uninstalling CodeSmith.