If you use one of course, which one?
- MyGeneration
- T4
- UML Transformation Tool (precise which one)
- ...
- All others not listed above since there are so many
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I tend to avoid code generation and generate dynamic functionality at runtime, using either C# DynamicMethods or C# Lambda Expressions... I prefer not to have generated code in my solutions...
LorenVS
2009-08-28 14:21:32
why? you love typing all that boring, repetitive code manually?
marc_s
2009-08-28 14:24:45
It's only boring and repetitive if you're doing it wrong.
Charlie Salts
2009-08-28 14:56:19
In the traditional app, there's an absolute TON of pretty boilerplate code -- why on earth would someone want to rewrite that every time? Perhaps you work on something very specialized and/or new each time LorenVS?
DarkSquid
2009-09-01 21:45:15
@Charlie, not always your language of choice can abstract you from repetitive code and even if it can, it might not be practical for performance reasons.
lubos hasko
2009-09-10 08:43:07
Code generation has one important merit - you can see what you generate. But generally, metaprogramming and metaobject protocols should be the right way imho.
Gabriel Ščerbák
2010-04-06 11:40:02
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CodeSmith Studio - lots of great sample templates that work with it.
TLiebe
2009-08-28 14:22:11
excellent tool - I gave up on T4 and went back to CodeSmith after T4 templates weren't able to be configured to pick a server/database/table as properties, rather than hardcoded in the template code...
marc_s
2009-08-28 14:24:07
While JET is popular, it's also not very powerful. For example, OAW/XPand supports aspect templates, so you can extend or replace existing templates; it is also based on a meta-model. EMF uses JET for its code generation, whereas GMF uses OAW/XPand for its code generation; the latter is significantly easier to extend or modify.
jevon
2010-04-26 23:33:40
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I just started playing with the code generation features of Enterprise Architect. It's nice having code generated from the model instead of the database layer, but unfortunately their code-gen tool is a bit unwieldy. So far I've tweaked its C# template to produce bare-bones CSLA classes which at least saves me a lot of typing.
David Peters
2009-08-28 14:26:44
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Jeeves (discussed in Advanced Perl Programming).
I have a pre-build step in VS 2005 that executes Jeeves to produce source code "just in time" for compilation/linking.
John at CashCommons
2009-09-01 21:25:41
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I often write code generation scripts in Python. In the distant past I have also used Perl. Either language is well-suited to the task.
Imagist
2009-09-01 21:27:56
I use Python to generate Java. It's worth noting that I am not generating classes from UML or anything like that; I am generating classes that contained large numbers of constants. This meant that we load constant data using the classloader instead of reading it from a file, which allows us a speed boost (the embedded system we work on has a poorly-implemented version of the JVM; many base classes have to be avoided because of poor performance.
Imagist
2009-09-15 00:35:12
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"Normal" code-gen tools I use that many people don't think about:
- Windows Forms designer
- XAML for WPF UIs
- LINQ to SQL
Other code gen tools that are obviously code gen in the project:
- ANTLR
- Custom tools I wrote such as one that turns an Excel spreadsheet (
File.xlsx) into code (File.g.cs)
280Z28
2009-09-01 21:38:24
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DMS Software Reengineering Toolkit
Can be configured to read any style of specification language, and generate code including post-code generation optimization.
Ira Baxter
2009-09-01 23:35:03
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I'm using the following code generators:
- Visio Enterprise Architect for generating SQL scripts for creating and updating databases
- NConstruct for generating NHibernate mapping files and sometimes for generating "first draft" of an application
- Visual Studio for generating UI design files, project and solution files etc.
- Jet Brains Resharper for lots of code snippets, template based chunks of code etc.
I believe my productivity would be much lower without code generation tools. Code generators usually don't produce bugs in generated code so this is also a good reason to use them.
Leo
2009-11-16 10:16:33
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I use for generating code from UML:
For editing/ generating GUI's:
- Netbeans IDE
- MS Visual Studio
For anything else
Python (because I find it's just the quickest way to hack something together).
bguiz
2009-11-16 10:30:24
openArchitectureWare exists no more, all subproject have become part of the Eclipse Modeling. The toolchain contain Xpand, Xtend, MWE and Xtext.
Gabriel Ščerbák
2010-04-06 11:37:43
@Gabriel openArchitectureWare still exists as an Eclipse working group (see the link in my answer).
Fabian Steeg
2010-04-06 13:57:46
That is true, I just wanted to stress, that there is no software under that name.
Gabriel Ščerbák
2010-04-06 14:10:09