Saturday, September 30, 2006
ActiveWriter Preview is available for download.

Help and download available here.

If you missed the announcement, it is a visual designer, an addin for Visual Studio 2005, to design a domain model and to generate code decorated with ActiveRecord attributes.

Please send bugs, suggestions and feature request through the Navigation pane of the site.

Thanks To
ActiveRecord team for the great and well supported library, NHibernate and Hibernate community for making this chain-reaction possible, Microsoft DSL Tools team for making DSL modelling this easy, everyone at DSL Tools forum, and my wife Damla for her patience.

Pluralization code is simplified version of Damian Conway's algorithm in paper An Algorithmic Approach to English Pluralization
Server Explorer integration greatly inspired from Ted Glaza's post here.
ActiveWriter | Code Generation | Visual Studio
posted on 9/30/2006 6:12:03 PM UTC  #    Comments [13]

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10/4/2006 2:39:13 PM UTC
Great Tool !!!
I'll try this one and make a post in my spanish blog :D
Bye from Spain
El Bruno
10/4/2006 5:25:23 PM UTC
Thanks. I'd love to hear your experience about it.
Gokhan
10/10/2006 12:06:06 PM UTC
Hi,

Very interesting tool. I have two questions though.

1) Unless I am wrong I do not see the some sort of default methods being generated, like e.g. Find, FindAll, Delete,... Are you planning on doing this?

2) Are you planning support for .net generics?

Bart |bart dot reyserhoveAT NOSPAMgmail dot com
10/10/2006 12:37:06 PM UTC
Thanks. Both will be included, generics first.
Gokhan
10/10/2006 1:19:26 PM UTC
Any idea on timing? ;-)
Bart |bart dot reyserhoveAT NOSPAMgmail dot com
10/10/2006 1:41:59 PM UTC
Don't know, sorry. As soon as I analyze the code to implement, I'll blog about it and set a deadline.

I'm doing stuff that I left untouched last month while I was devoting my time to AW. But I'll be active on it shortly.
Gokhan
10/14/2006 3:49:10 PM UTC
I get this error when I try to use it. Am I missing something?
myfile.actiw(1,1): error CS0116: A namespace does not directly contain members such as fields or method

I'm using:

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
Version 8.0.50727.51 (QFE.050727-5100)
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 2.0.50727

Installed Edition: Professional

Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 77626-009-0295624-41385
Microsoft Visual Basic 2005

Microsoft Visual C# 2005 77626-009-0295624-41385
Microsoft Visual C# 2005

Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 77626-009-0295624-41385
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005

Microsoft Visual J# 2005 77626-009-0295624-41385
Microsoft Visual J# 2005

Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 77626-009-0295624-41385
Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005

Hotfix for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition - ENU (KB910275)
This Hotfix is for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition - ENU. \n
If you later install a more recent service pack, this Hotfix will be uninstalled automatically. \n
For more information, visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/910275

ReSharper 2.0 (build #248)
ReSharper add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio. For more information about ReSharper, see the ReSharper website at http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper. Copyright (c) 2003-2006 JetBrains, Inc

SQL Server Analysis Services
Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services Designer
Version 9.00.2047.00

SQL Server Integration Services
Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services Designer
Version 9.00.2047.00

SQL Server Reporting Services
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services Designers
Version 9.00.2047.00
DavidKemp |david_dot_a_dot_r dot kempAT NOSPAM_NOSPAM_gmail dot com
10/14/2006 3:53:50 PM UTC
(look at you and your fancy email address changer!)
DavidKemp |david dot a dot r dot kempAT NOSPAMgmail dot com
11/1/2006 11:08:02 AM UTC
great tool, also interesting dsl application to learn from.

It worked after installing the msi package but it hurt the sdk 2006.11.
After repairing sdk 2006.11 the tool does not work :-(

did you have similar expiriences with the latest sdk?
citykid |thulkaAT NOSPAMyahoo dot com
1/4/2007 10:38:05 AM UTC
great tool

but i have a question.

i installed it ,vs 2005 sp1 ,v3 sdk

anything look as good.but when i drag a table from the server exploer to actw,it's just a empty class without any property.
Corny |Corny_cnAT NOSPAMhotmail dot com
1/4/2007 1:06:31 PM UTC
I didn't tested it on sp1, that might be the problem. That drag'n drop support is marely a hack and I was expecting it to be broken somewhere in the future. I'll fix it if I can.
Gokhan
2/28/2007 10:05:00 AM UTC
great tool

but i have a question.

i installed it ,vs 2005 sp1 ,v3 sdk

anything look as good.but when i drag a table from the server exploer to actw,it's just a empty class without any property.
Corny |Corny_cnAT NOSPAMhotmail dot com
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I have the same question.
ken |levinknightAT NOSPAM163 dot com
2/28/2007 11:21:31 AM UTC
BTW. My Environment is VS 2005 non sp1
ken |levinknightAT NOSPAM163 dot com
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