LINQ to SQL templates for T4-Adding Interfaces for C#

6. October 2009
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I was working in these templates and wanted to add interfaces.  

I found a link in the discussions here, from Jwooley stating he had done this: http://www.thinqlinq.com/Post.aspx/Title/Generating-Interfaces-for-LINQ-to-SQL-Entities

Well he did it, but in Visual basic and I needed C#, so I changed up the script.   I tried to add this script to his site, but the submission didnt allow it so I will post it here and add a link to his site.

Hope this saves someone a little time:

(Follow the instructions on the think link site and replace this part :

namespace <#=data.EntityNamespace#>	
{
<#		}
#><#if (options.CreateInterfaces) { #>
	/// <summary>
    /// <#=class1.Name#> interface
    /// </summary>
	<#=code.Format(class1.TypeAttributes)#>interface I<#=class1.Name#>
	{
	<#			foreach(Column column in class1.Columns) {#>
	<# if (column.IsReadOnly) {#>ReadOnly <#}#> <#=code.Format(column.Type)#> <#=column.Member#>{ get; set; }
	<# } 
	#>
	}
<# } 
#>
<#		if (data.Serialization && class1.IsSerializable) {

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Jing and Jing pro

20. September 2009
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I was recently beginning to learn T4 and started here with Oleg Sych's great blog posts on T4:

Then I came across these videos on T4 from Kevin Dietz here: 

 

What I thought was cool though was Kevin is using Jing.  I haven't seen Jing before but it is free and is a very slick presentation software from TechSmith.  

TechSmith makes Camtasia studio and Snagit, which some of you probably heard of or use.  What is great with Jing is that it is free, but also it seems to be a lot better than many other of these types of free version.  What I think is better though is  for 15 dollars a year you can buy the pro version and get rid of all the advertising for Jing. This seems to me like a steal as it does everything most bloggers and someone who wants to have a easy demo.  Take a look here at Jing, if you are interested: http://www.jingproject.com/pro/

Overall Jing looks like a very high quality product and definately something I will use in the future for some code showings here at Beginnersoft.

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Contextual help

1. January 2008
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I will be building a contextual help for my company soon, so I did some research and here it is:

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Getting Microsoft Office 2003 word addin working

1. January 2007
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This is another old blog entry from the past, that I wanted to take with me.
 
I recently spent some time testing word addins for my job and ended up learning much more than I wanted to know about word addins.
Here are the basic steps I came up with for creating a test addin. If you start with these steps below you know that everything is working with your addin from the beginning so you can then move forward.
 
Steps for creating an office 2003 addin without vsto.
  1. Create an addin by creating a new project and chosing other project types, then extensibility, then shared addin.
  2. use this code http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;302901 to create a test addin.
  3. use this http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa537166(office.11).aspx to download the shim wizard and install the shim.  Is this step necessary, you may ask? I think so, because you are isolating your addin. Plus, the wizard is simple to use.
  4. if you are using vs 2005 and .net 2.0 go here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/908002/en-us and install this hotfix on your development machine, then include it in the prerequisites of the admin setup file(right-click on addin setup project, choose properties, choose prerequisites.
  5. Install the addin on a test machine. Do not just think that the addin works, because it works on your development machine.  This needs to be throughally tested on a clean machine.
  6. If you have problems then my advice is to post your questions at microsoft of here: http://www.outlookcode.com (They are a very good source for getting your addin working)
Below are the links and some of my notes:
 
Word Addin with shims--C#

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