The last week, I was testing a new feature of WPF 4.5 : EnableCollectionSynchronization
[Read More]Web service management using T4 – Web service declaration
As we have seen in the introduction blog post, managing web services can be a repetitive and error-prone task, as it requires many manual steps from the developer. The only parts where he adds some real value to the project are when:
- He defines what the service do (usually by defining the contract)
- He implements the service.
Web service management using T4 – Introduction and goals
If you want an introduction on what T4 is, please read previous post.
One way to detect where T4 can be interesting is by finding where the developer job starts to become repetitive (and most of the time error-prone). In most of my projects, one of this part was web services (and operations) declaration and management.
[Read More]Introduction to Text templates (T4)
In the following (and first) serie of posts, I will try to introduce one nifty feature that deserves more recognition than it currently has: text generation using T4 templates. If you are an avid Microsoft developer, you probably have used T4 when manipulating the Entity Framework. But before talking about examples of this feature (which will be described in further articles), let’s start with the basics.
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