Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

I needed application launch logic for a Windows Forms control that would launch the appropriate application (from default and user preferences) based on document type.  Enter CodeSmith.The default DocTypes and their associated applications were locat... [More]

Over the weekend I posted on a CodeSmith template I created to retrieve a data layer DataTable and called a utilities function to populate an ASP.NET dropdown control.  In that post I questioned whether that particular code pattern was an efficient u... [More]

There are patterns published in books and patterns we use in our applications.  We know when we're typing out a code pattern that can probably be auto-generated.  But it can seem like real work to sit down and write the CodeSmith code for the pa... [More]

Two survey requests were waiting for me in my inbox this morning.  Being a big fan of both CodeSmith and Business 2.0 I clicked to respond. The CodeSmith survey was the classic example of Too Many Questions--eleven questions requiring customer thoug... [More]

I used two CodeSmith templates within minutes of each other yesterday and was--as usual--struck by how productive it is.  I continue to seek new uses of CodeSmith in my applications to add to my personal CodeSmith Library, but the library has no... [More]

I decided to package a few CodeSmith Templates I've written lately to give a little something back to those in the CodeSmith Community who have provided so much valuable information to me in the CodeSmith Template Share Forum and elsewhere. &nbs... [More]

Kathleen Dollard was good enough to respond to my post the other day in which I expressed my dissappointment in not being able to tap her expertise on Code Generation.  Seems she's going to satisfy the CodeGen hungry Vermont Masses after all!  ... [More]

Kathleen Dollard will be speaking at VTDotNet next Monday.  I was SOOOOO excited to find out Kathleen was coming so I could learn about Code Generation from the Code Gen Maven herself.  But then I read from the VTDotNet program description that ... [More]

keywords: linebreaks; line breaks; carriage returns; CodeSmith This may not seem blog-worthy to non-CodeSmiths out there, nor to Seasoned CodeSmiths either.  But it took me a bit of time to track this down, so being the generous guy I am with top se... [More]

I've used CodeSmith to build business objects and collections, mostly.  There's so much more it can do.  In my Smart Client Synchronization logic I am using an EventLog Table and EventTypes with TimeStamps to determine what needs updated.  ... [More]