I’ve been working on the CodeSmith Generator CSLA Templates periodically over the past few months at CodeSmith Tools. We have designed the templates from the ground up around the CSLA.NET Framework version 3.6.2. You might be thinking what’s the big deal it’s just another set of CSLA templates. You are mistaken, we have done a lot of research and gathered a lot of feedback. The end result is a streamlined CSLA experience that is highly customizable.

The .netTiers team released .netTiers 2.3.0 Beta 2 today. .netTiers 2.3.0 is a maintenance release containing many bug fixes and patches. We have also added various requested features like Enterprise Library version 4.1 as well as support for Visual Studio 2008. I would have to say the biggest and most requested feature that went into .netTiers 2.3.0 Beta 2 was support for Oracle!

Sometimes User interfaces can’t provide a solution for every scenario where you might need additional functionality by customization. One area where you might come across this is if you’re trying to use Oracle on an 64bit machine or in a custom Oracle instance. If you are running Windows XP there is a good chance you can get away with using the built in Connection Editor and use CodeSmith to connect to your Oracle Schema.

There may be a time when you need to use Extended ASCII Codes in your CodeSmith Generator Templates. If you have already tried using them into your template you have more than likely ran into the following problem. When a user first creates a template an Encoding attribute is not added by default to the CodeTemplate directive. So when a user starts adding characters in the Extended ASCII range, they will run into the following problem without first setting the encoding attribute. If you…

I’ve come across a few issues, where a CodeSmith Generator install might become corrupt when going from a beta to RTM. The following guide will show you how to successfully remove CodeSmith Generator from your computer. Please allow 10 to 15 minutes of your time to complete this guide.