| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 344 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Once this skill is within your everyday comfort zone, it will give your productivity a boost and increase your value to your team. I encourage you to add the techniques outlined in this book to your toolset and to use them to develop your own workbench of generative tools. In doing so, I'm confident you'll improve your capabilities, and what's more, have fun doing so."--The Foreword by Gareth Jones, Developer Architect, Visual Studio ®, Microsoft Enlist Visual Studio's Built-in Code Generation Tools to Write Better Software Faster Automatic code generation can dramatically increase your productivity, improve code quality and maintainability, promote reuse, and help you extend best practices throughout your development organization. .NET and Visual Studio contain many powerful, code-generation tools--and this book shows you how to succeed with all of them. With Practical Code Generation in .NET, spend less time writing monotonous, repetitive code--leaving more time to address troublesome areas! Microsoft MVP Peter Vogel covers code generation with Visual Studio 2010, 2008, and 2005, as well as all recent versions of .NET, including .NET 4.0. You'll learn when enlisting code generation makes sense and how to design solutions that build on the skills and resources you already have. Writing for experienced programmers, Vogel shows how to generate reliable code using procedural code, Visual Studio add-ins, XML, configuration files, and more--including Microsoft's innovative CodeDOM technology for generating code in multiple languages. He brings everything together in three complete, chapter-length case studies. Coverage includes - Understanding the structure of .NET code-generation solutions and best practices for architecting them - Creating Visual Studio add-ins that quickly integrate code generation into day-to-day activities - Using objects and methods to add or remove project components - Using text insertion to generate code using any tool--even standard string handling functions - Working with the specific features of C#, Visual Basic .NET, and ASP.NET - Generating more concise code with .NET's new Text Template Transformation Toolkit (T4) - Building code-generation solutions with Visual Studio templates, attributes, and custom tools - Distributing code-generation solutions. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Chapter 1 Introducing Code Generation -- Repetitive Code: Your History -- Copy-and-Paste -- General-Purpose Code -- Benefits of Code Generation -- When to Use Code Generation -- Best Practices in Code-Generation Solutions -- Code-Generation Process -- Code-Generation Tools -- Model-Driven Architecture, Declarative Programming, and Code Generation -- Model-Driven Architecture -- Declarative Programming -- PART I: TOOLS -- Chapter 2 Integrating with Visual Studio -- Design-Time Integration -- Starting Your Visual Studio Add-In -- Creating a Menu-Driven User Interface -- Working with Visual Studio Windows -- Responding to Events -- Accepting Input -- Integrating with Visual Studio -- Chapter 3 Manipulating Project Components -- The Code Model -- Managing Projects and Solutions -- Generating Code -- Modifying and Analyzing Components -- Processing Components in a File -- Working with Retrieved Elements -- Working with the CodeType Objects -- Storing Information -- Working with Project Components -- Chapter 4 Modifying Code in the Editor -- Opening and Closing Documents and TextDocuments -- Backing Out Changes -- Creating EditPoints to Access Text -- Retrieving Information -- Accessing Text with an EditPoint -- Working with Bookmarks -- Inserting, Replacing, and Formatting Text -- Inserting and Reading Text -- Chapter 5 Supporting Project-Specific Features -- Introducing the VSLangProj Libraries -- Managing a "Projectless" Website -- Project-Specific Features -- Chapter 6 Generating Language-Neutral Code -- A Comprehensive Example -- Declarations -- Defining Classes -- Class Members -- Statements and Expressions -- Code Structures -- When All Else Fails: Code Snippets -- Other Code Features -- Code Providers -- Generating Code. |
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Chapter 7 Generating Code from Templates with T4 -- T4 in Visual Studio -- T4 Code-Generation Strategies -- Creating a T4 Template -- Extending T4 -- Invoking Templates from Code -- Leveraging Templates -- Chapter 8 Other Tools: Templates, Attributes, and Custom Tools -- Item Templates -- Attributes -- Generating Code from Custom File Formats -- Reviewing the Tools -- PART II: CASE STUDIES -- Chapter 9 Case Study: Generating a Connection String Manager -- Defining the Problem -- Setting Up the Add-In -- Creating the Code Generator -- Customizing the Template -- Generating Code -- Reading Input -- Notifying the Developer -- Supporting Customization -- Tying Generation to Events -- Generating a Simple Class -- Chapter 10 Case Study: Generating Validation Code -- Defining the Problem -- Starting the Code-Generation Project -- Wiring Up the Add-In -- Starting the Generation Utility -- Defining a Template -- Generating Code -- Specifying Code with the CodeDom -- Generating Code in the Target Language -- Supporting "Projectless" Websites -- Handling Errors -- Building a Complete Code-Generation Solution -- Chapter 11 Case Study: Generating Data-Conversion Code -- Defining the Problem -- Creating the Designer -- Enhancing Model Validation -- Generating Code -- Distributing Your Designer -- Visual Studio 2010 Additions -- Capturing Inputs -- PART III: APPENDIXES -- Appendix A: Generating Menu Names -- Appendix B: Options Dialog Categories, Subcategories, and Properties -- Appendix C: A Code-Generation Add-In -- Integrating Code-Generation Classes -- Appendix D: Distributing Code-Generation Solutions -- Creating the .vscontent File -- A Complete Example -- Installing the Solution -- Index. |
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Microsoft Visual studio.
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Microsoft .NET Framework.
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Microsoft Visual studio. |
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Microsoft Visual studio |
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Microsoft .NET Framework |
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Code generators.
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Générateurs de codes. |
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Code generators. |
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Microsoft .NET Framework. |
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Code generators |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Vogel, Peter, 1953- Practical code generation in .NET. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Addison-Wesley, 2010 9780321606785 (OCoLC)506248866 |
| ISBN |
9780321617620 |
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0321617622 |
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8131748790 |
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9788131748794 |
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(pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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(pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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