Practical Code Generation in .NET: Covering Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010

Chapter 9. Case Study: Generating a Connection String Manager

In this chapter:

• 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

In this chapter, I walk through an end-to-end solution for code generation that concentrates on integrating with Visual Studio and working with the CodeElement objects. The code for this solution is kept purposely simple to avoid involving other tools. (For example, I only make minimal use of the code editor object.) The case study in the next chapter includes a wider range of tools, including the CodeDom.

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