Over the past year the CodeSmith team has been hard at work on CodeSmith Generator 5.0. This release contains many fixes, performance enhancements and other enhancements over the previous versions. Below is a list of some of the major changes between CodeSmith Generator 5.0 and CodeSmith Generator 4.0. I have highlighted some of my favorites below.

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A tip that not a lot of people know is that the samples are not reset during every new release of CodeSmith Generator. New versions of templates are added to the CodeSmith Generator template directory for the Major and Minor versions. However that is not the case for regular builds (identified via the assembly build number) for example: 5.3.x. Please note that this will also work if you want to reset your templates for the fun of it.

Every once in a while you might run into a licensing problem when using CodeSmith Generator. This can be when the Visual Studio add-in becomes corrupted, or you encounter some kind of licensing problem and you have problems activating. You can fix these related problems by resetting the license file and reactivating your copy of CodeSmith Generator.