[Mono-list] Question on Code Generation

anton123 niniendowarrior at gmail.com
Wed Apr 8 04:11:30 EDT 2009


I certainly have no problems touching base with you over how this one goes.
:-)


Trober wrote:
> 
> I'd like to hear about, you can email me directly if you don't mind.
> 
> I'm working on Microsoft Oslo stuff for my own shop and asked via the Mono 
> wiki if Mono work in-progress to support it.
> Due to Oslo currently being on a preview pre-release (CTP), Mono will
> wait. 
> Understandable.
> But, I'd be interested in seeing to it Mono can support .Net 4.0 modeling 
> the very day.Net 4.0 releases.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "anton123" <niniendowarrior at gmail.com>
> To: <mono-list at lists.ximian.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 6:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Question on Code Generation
> 
> 
>>
>> I took a peek at T4 and it looks interesting.  I'm still going through
>> the
>> tutorials on Mono development though so I'll take a deeper look on it
>> once 
>> I
>> get a better handle on Mono.
>>
>> I'll try everything I can to make Mono work for my project.  I'm hell
>> bent
>> on it.  That much can be said. :-)
>>
>>
>> jhill wrote:
>>>
>>> CodeSmith 2.6 is almost 5 years old.  Sadly, it probably isn't that far
>>> off from working with Mono, but it has some p/invokes, and after this
>>> long, it doesn't seem like they have any incentive to do any maintenance
>>> on the freeware tool.  If you want to generate code from CodeSmith
>>> tempates on Mono, then it may be worth seeing if they have plans to
>>> support Mono with a newer version of their tool.
>>>
>>> On the other hand, I would love to see the T4 community grow.  It seems
>>> like a lot more projects are starting to use it (particularly MS
>>> projects)...
>>>
>>> --Joseph
>>>> Hi Michael!
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the information.  As a short exercise, I tried to run the
>>>> freeware version of CodeSmith (2.6) on Mono and it didn't work.  At 
>>>> least
>>>> I
>>>> tried.
>>>>
>>>> I was also thinking that CodeSmith should generate code that Mono can 
>>>> use
>>>> as
>>>> well.
>>>>
>>>> I'm writing on Linux mostly and I'm trying to really make this work 
>>>> since
>>>> I
>>>> don't want to own a Windows box for this.  I'm scouring for everything
>>>> that
>>>> I can about this.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for the link on T4.  I'll be sure to read up on it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Michael Hutchinson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:00 PM, anton123 <niniendowarrior at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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?
>>>>>>
>>>>> I don't know whether CodeSmith runs on Mono, though it must be able to
>>>>> generate code that will run on Mono, so if you're writing code on
>>>>> Windows, then it might be a good choice.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you're in Linux/Mac, or you need more flexibility to customise and
>>>>> ship the generator, then check out Mono's implementation of Visual
>>>>> Studio's T4 (Text Template Transformation Toolkit) system:
>>>>> http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2009/Mar-10.html
>>>>>
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Michael Hutchinson
>>>>> http://mjhutchinson.com
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