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I sling a lot of data in and out of my Jobs Management Application and this afternoon's slinging consisted of Job Estimate data from Microsoft Access. The process occurs through a Community Server background task and consists of three steps. 1) Request the List<Business Object>, 2) Retrieve the data to populate it in the AccessDataProvider, and 3) Pass it off to the SqlDataProvider. I had written CodeSmith templates to perform various aspects of the Access Data Import process, but not what...

I blogged about my CodeSmith project named CSTiers when it was born. I've been using it quite a bit to generate custom Chameleon controls, Provider classes, and business objects. This weekend I added templates to generate custom Configuration, Roles, Context, urls and user, along with a CSModule to create the custom user on CS CreateUser. With the addition of the new templates to the CodeSmith project I am now generating a complete ready-to-use custom Community Server class library project. You'll...

The term Composite CodeSmith Template refers to generating code across several tiers of an application, writing code for multiple classes in a single template, somewhat of a cross between a single template and a CodeSmith Project. I don't know if there's any conventional term for this, but I needed a folder name to stick this type of template and came up with "Composite." This is by no means anything new, but I'm blogging about it because there's a lot of potential here...

I create a lot of resources.xml and controlpanelresources.xml entries. Adding a Community Server resources file entry is not a time-consuming process, but the CodeSmith ActiveSnippet I created makes it even less time-consuming. CodeSmith ActiveSnippets were introduced in CodeSmith 4.0 and are a lot like Visual Studio 2005 Snippets, but much more robust, with the full CodeSmith toolset at our disposal. Another great thing about CodeSmith ActiveSnippets is that you can use them in places where you...