MSBuild and the code generation techniques of Kathleen Dollard seem to fit together very naturally.

MSBuild is a blatant clone of NAnt with the benefit of being the native project file format of VS2005.

Kathleen Dollard promotes the use of code generation (generated code = meta data + templates) using XSLT.

Kathleen has a complex code generation harness that provides configurable one touch code generation.

I feel that this would be more naturally implemented as a set of MsBuild/Nant extensions.

For example the Database Metadata extraction tool would be one task. Stored procedure generation would be another. Code to call the stored procedures would be a third. This would provide the one touch benefit of the generation framework yet allow the pieces to become far more flexible.

This is RCF 2119 which formally defines SHALL, SHOULD and MAY with respect to requirememts.

This is a C#port of a java business rules engine.

This is a great article on enabling XPath navigation of an Object Model.

The wonderful feature is that your classes are not directly tied to the XML classes.

This is a .NET MVC Framework that includes win forms support.

When the .net framework utility xsd.exe is used to create a class from and xml document it includes the wonderful comment:

// This code was generated by a tool

 

Maybe microsoft are new to this code generation stuff but that is not really very useful.

(It would help to say which tool. )

This is a link to papers on business rules.

This is a great article on how to write software.

 It gives 12 test for a healthy software environment.

http://www.orb.com – this is a product that allows sharing of media remotely.

// The following is a simple example of event handlers without having to declare new’s 

using System;

namespace DelegateConsole
{
    public class SimpleMaths
    {
        public delegate void MathsMessage(string msg);
        public event MathsMessage ComputationFinished;

        public int Add(int x, int y)
        {
            ComputationFinished(“Adding Complete”);
            return x + y;
        }
        public int Subtract(int x, int y)
        {
            ComputationFinished(“Subtracting Complete”);
            return x – y;       
        }
    }

    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            SimpleMaths s = new SimpleMaths();
            // Method group conversion – almost a delphi event handler
            s.ComputationFinished += ComputationFinishedHandler;
            Console.WriteLine(“10 + 10 is {0}”,s.Add(10,10));
            Console.ReadLine();
        }

        static void ComputationFinishedHandler(string msg)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(msg);
        }
    }
}