CodeGeneration
A new screencast from Patterns and Practices Guidance that shows how to leverage T4 Templates in Visual Studio 2008 for Code Generation. A sample template is created by hand and then various T4 Templates are shown that generate Entities, Data Access Objects, and Factory Classes for each table in the Northwind Database.
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The Repository Factory generates repository classes as partial classes which allows a developer to define custom properties and method in the data access layer in a separate partial class so the Repository Factory guidance automation recipes do not overwrite hand coded behavior.
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I uploaded the Enterprise Library Configuration Editor Plug-In to the Repository Factory Source Code this morning. This allows a developer to view and manage the Repository Factory Configuration Section visually within the Enterprise Library Configuration Editor.
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The Repository Factory has been released from Microsoft Patterns & Practices, which provides some nice code generation benefits for generating business entities, stored procedures, and a data access layer for you winform and web applications.
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David Hayden is speaking to the Tampa .NET Developer Group on Thursday, October 18th, 2007 on the Repository Factory. In addition, David will talk about using the Policy Injection Application Block and Validation Application Block with the Repository Factory as well as creating a plug-in for Enterprise Library Design-Time Support.
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This screencast demonstrates using the Repository Factory Guidance Package to generate a data access layer for web and winform applications. Discusses differences between it and the older Data Access Guidance Package.
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This screencast walks one through the code generated by the Repository Factory Guidance Package for creating a data access layer in your applications.
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The Data Access Guidance Package in the Web Service Software Factory is now a separate Guidance Package called the Repository Factory. It has some nifty improvements like a RepositoryFactory Class, Configuration Section, and generation of Interfaces.
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The Data Access Guidance Package will be removed from the Web Service Software Factory in v3.0 and be a separate guidance package.
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This screencast demonstrates using the Data Access Guidance Package in the Web Service Software Factory to generate a data access layer for a Web Client Software Factory application.
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