ABSTRACT

Many developers are familiar with CodeSmith, Eric Smith's template-based code generation engine that has become extremely popular in the last several years. It's a great way to stamp out boilerplate code, and it has templates for many popular frameworks. In this working session - which will be very light on PowerPoint - we'll take a walk through automating code generation usingCodeSmith's API. Starting with an EntityMap, we'll build several layers of a real application (no Northwind stuff here), from stored procedures to DALs to base Business Objects. We'll also take a look at incorporating this into an automated/daily build. Code that writes code - there's nothing like it!

BIO: Dan Souk

Dan has been designing and building custom software for fifteen years on the Microsoft platform for a variety of industries and customers. He has broad experience as a developer, architect and technical PM with large-scale .Net software projects, and believes strongly in the potential for automation of the software development process. After spending much of the last five years on the road, four with Avanade and one with Blackbaud, he is now building an IT consulting business in Chicago with Centric Consulting.