During the development of our CodeSmith Generator CSLA templates we have spent a lot time unit testing the generated code to ensure everything was working correctly.

Over a week ago we released our new CodeSmith Generator CSLA Templates. I highly recommend everyone that uses CSLA to try them out as they will save you a ton of time. Also you’ll notice very quickly that it follows the CSLA best practices and has other features that you have been looking for like a working Data Access Layer (DAL). The best part is that you won’t have to worry about learning something new (the generated code) if you are already familiar with the CSLA Framework.

In Part 1: The Introduction was an overview of the CodeSmith Generator CSLA templates we are developing at CodeSmith. In this post, I am going to go over how to use the CSLA quick start and the new improvements resulting from customer feedback (Keep the feedback coming!).

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.