[Mono-list] Question on Code Generation

anton123 niniendowarrior at gmail.com
Mon Apr 6 22:12:16 EDT 2009


Interesting to hear that.  Can you spare some more details?  I'd be most
interested to hear what you found in it.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. :-)

Trober wrote:
> 
>> I see what CodeSmith actually generates, it may be relatively
>> straightforward to produce a template generator
> I did an eval and tossed it.
> You can duplicate enough of what it does in very little time.
> 
>> cut down the clutter
> ???  You can clutter things with the templates you build, or not.
> 
> 
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>>
>> Well, sounds like I'll have to roll up some sleeves and start hacking.
>> :-)
>> Actually, that's what one of the other teams is using (of which I have 
>> very
>> little information other than the tools they use, e.g. Visual Studio and
>> CodeSmith).  Me and my co-workers are expecting that we may have to adopt
>> that to dive right in and work with their code.  As of now, the word is 
>> that
>> CodeSmith will be able to cut down the clutter on many things.  I presume 
>> if
>> I see what CodeSmith actually generates, it may be relatively
>> straightforward to produce a template generator.
>>
>> If anyone has ideas and opinions, I'll really appreciate it because it's
>> still some time away from when I'll be doing some heavy .Net work and 
>> would
>> be nice to be prepared.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>> Trober wrote:
>>>
>>>> Can anyone shed some light?
>>> there's not that much to CodeSmith, why bother vs. building a quick
>>> parser/template/generator?
>>> you're better off getting a simple grammar(s) together with an 
>>> easy-to-use
>>> parser, and just fill in the templates yourself
>>> you'll own the generators when done, and they don't take up that much
>>> extra
>>> effort vs. what they save
>>>
>>>> I'm anticipating a lot of code-generation heavy work.
>>> shed some light on what you're trying to build.
>>> Anything that's ORM, service framework (aspx, asmx, WCF, etc.), and even
>>> UI
>>> parts should be auto-gen'd  :-)
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> To: <mono-list at lists.ximian.com>
>>> Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 6:00 PM
>>> Subject: [Mono-list] Question on Code Generation
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>>>>
>>>> I'm wondering if there's a Mono substitute/counterpart to CodeSmith (or
>>>> if
>>>> Mono does support CodeSmith).  I'm hoping it might since I'm 
>>>> anticipating
>>>> a
>>>> lot of code-generation heavy work.  Can anyone shed some light?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you so much!
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