Charlotte Foust
cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Tue Dec 11 12:19:20 CST 2007
I have to admit that the developers don't use it, only our boss, who acts primarily as a project manager. The rest of us come along behind and fix the problems with it! LOL Charlotte -----Original Message----- From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 9:08 AM To: dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com Subject: [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 _______________________________________________ dba-VB mailing list dba-VB at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-vb http://www.databaseadvisors.com