Recently, I built a CodeSmith Generator sample UITypeEditor that allows a user to enter in custom data into a DropDownList. In the following article I’ll show you what you need to do in order to build your own UITypeEditor. First you need to create a public class that will hold the data of the drop down list. In this example I named my class DropDownListProperty.

We released CodeSmith Generator 5.1 with the new requirements of the Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5. One of our experiences in upgrading to the .Net Framework 3.5 is issues we have run into like our customers reporting Visual Studio disappearing or closing extremely quick when they try to generate code using CodeSmith’s Visual Studio Integration. The following link Tools - Part 11 - Add-ins - Attempting to work around the “VS Silent Death” bug describes this issue in detail.…

There may come a time when you want to implement some extra features or maybe an Easter egg into your application using keyboard shortcuts. I was recently tasked with creating an Easter egg so we could test some functionality in CodeSmith. After countless searches looking for an elegant solution (I found a few ugly solutions and some nicer ones) I came across Method #3. I’ll First touch on the one I didn’t choose to go with.

Check out the screen casts / videos of the Microsoft 2008 Lang.NET Symposium event. They have some pretty interesting videos available for everyone, granted you have Silverlight installed.

I’ve been waiting for this day for a very long time. Starting today you can view or debug the source code to the following .NET Framework libraries: