Just released! Looks Mighty impressive on paper with built-in support for various 3rd party libraries, frameworks, and user interfaces.
Depending on the situation, template-based code generators can be invaluable...
CodeSmith 5.0 is currently in beta 2.
Visual WebGui was recently released as version 6.1.
My latest screencast on Code Generation in Visual Studio using T4 Templates.
Subsonic 2.1 was released with a number of new features to help with those database-driven ASP.NET websites.
I think ASP.NET Dynamic Data Rocks for forms over data web applications. We have new updates for the runtime, templates, and MVC preview.
A major release of the free Retina .NET O/R Mapper.
If you are interested in Castle ActiveRecord, The NHibernate FAQ has a new tutorial on getting started with Castle ActiveRecord.
Retina.net is an O/R Mapper for the .NET Framework that appears to be active once again on CodePlex.
eXpressApp Framework - Release Candidate 2 was just made available. As the name implies, this is a code generation tool / framework for creating entire winform and asp.net web applications with complete integration into Visual Studio. Compared to the Web Client Software Factory, Smart Client Software Factory, and Acropolis....
If you are interested in code generation and generating a data access layer for your .NET Applications, you may be interested in the recent release of .netTiers 2.2. Now supporting Enterprise Library 3.0 and 3.1. Read more...
If you are into code generation, it appears a new version of CodeSmith is out - version 4.1. I haven't downloaded it yet, but two bulleted features make me pretty excited: Visual Studio 2008 Support and LINQ to SQL Templates. Read more...
After several requests, I created a screencast that shows off using the Data Access Guidance Package in the Web Service Software Factory to create a Data Access Layer in a Web Client Software Factory Solution.
I use Model-View-Presenter in all my web applications but can't stand to create the initial structure over and over. To avoid this, you can just create item templates for you typical views, presenters, controllers, etc. for some code generation boost. Read more...
In Orcas Beta 2 we will see partial methods, which provides a hook for developers to “inject” code into partial classes without running the risk of that code being overwritten when the class is being generated in the future. Read more...