What code generation tools do you use?

Question

If you use, of course, which one?

• Mygenation
• T4
• UML Conversion Tool (which one exactly)
• ...
• All others not listed above, as there are so many

Answer 1

Do you think my hands? :)

Answer 2

CodeSmith Studio is a lot of great sample templates that work with it.

Answer 3

Eclipse EMF and JET.

Answer 4

"Normal" code-code tools. I use something that many people don’t think about:

• Windows Forms Designer
• XAML for WPF user interfaces
• LINQ to SQL

Other code generation tools that obviously have gen code in the project:

• ANTLR
• Custom tools that I wrote, for example, one that turns an Excel spreadsheet ( File.xlsx ) into code ( File.g.cs )

Answer 5

Eclipse Xpand and Xtext , also known as openArchitectureWare .

Answer 6

I try to avoid generating code and generating dynamic functionality at runtime using either C # DynamicMethods or C # Lambda Expressions ... I prefer not to generate code in my solutions ...

Answer 7

I use the following code generators:

• Visio Enterprise Architect for creating SQL scripts for creating and updating databases
• NConstruct to create NHibernate mapping files and sometimes to generate the "first draft" of an application
• Visual Studio for creating user interface design files, project and solution files, etc.
• Jet Brains Resharper for multiple code snippets, template-based code snippets, etc.

I believe that my performance will be much lower without code generation tools. Code generators usually do not generate errors in the generated code, so this is also a good reason to use them.

Answer 8

I just started playing with Enterprise Architect's code generation features. It's nice to have code created from a model, not a database level, but unfortunately their code generation tool is a bit cumbersome. So far, I have set up my C # template to create bare-bone CSLA classes, which will at least save me a lot of information.

Answer 9

Jeeves (discussed in Advanced Perl Programming).

I have a pre-build step in VS 2005 that launches Jeeves to create just-in-time source code for compilation / linking.

Answer 10

I often write code generation scripts in Python. In the distant past, I also used Perl. Any language is well suited for the task.

Answer 11

DMS Software Reengineering Tool

It can be configured to read any style of specification language and code generation, including optimization of post-code generation.

Answer 12

I use to generate code from UML:

• Visual Paradigm for UML
• Netbeans IDE + UML Plugin

To edit / create a GUI:

• Netbeans IDE
• MS Visual Studio

For anything else

Python (because I find it the fastest way to hack something together).

Answer 13

i use your own jUle generator

http://code.google.com/p/jule/