[dba-VB] Codesmith trials and tribulations

Yea, yea, yea. 

And I actually do believe that.  However think of this from my perspective.
It is just me, sitting here in my office.  I work to make money, if I don't
do billable hours I do not get paid.  No "salary", no employer who will pay
me to come up to speed on how to do this.

So I look at this and say WOW, if I could learn this I could make SO much
more money because I could be so much more productive.  And then I say WOW,
there is no book, it will take me weeks to learn it, I don't have anyone
else using it that I can pop into their cube and ask questions, and I have
work to do so that Robbie and Allie can eat in January.

BTW I spent 45 (non paid) minutes this morning JUST trying to download the
thing.  I had to get a user name in order to download it.  I did that.  Then
it said it would take 15 minutes to set up the account (ever heard of
computers guys?).  Then I am poking around and tried a download.  It wanted
my email so I gave it.  It said the email was in use.  Uhhh... hmmm... MIGHT
BE ME?  Then I clicked "lost my password" because 15 minutes later no
password had appeared in me email box.  Then I get TWO emails, with TWO
DIFFERENT (industrial strength, will resist the CIA) passwords, NEITHER OF
WHICH work.  In one place on the site it asks for my email and a password
(neither of which works) and in another it asks for my USER NAME and
password (neither of which works).

And all of this to get a code generator to allow me to standardize my coding
practices.


HMMMMmmmmmmmm.  Perhaps they need to use Codesmith?  Or maybe the problem is
that they DID use Codesmith?  Scary to contemplate!

So I replied to the email for the last password asking them to figure out
what is wrong.  

45 minutes wasted, and I haven't even managed to get in to see the
documentation or download the trial software.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com 
-----Original Message-----
From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 11:37 AM
To: dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [dba-VB] Does anyone have

It's wonderful for quickly regenerating a data tier after schema changes,
but we had to tweak the template to make sure it didn't throw away the
business rules we had added to our data entity classes.  It's very handy for
generating the typeddatasets and basic NUnit tests though. 

Charlotte