I wrote this add-in to save myself some time while working on a project I am doing that has lots of lookup tables and views. It took me a bit longer that I thought but it was interesting.I think it's a useful utility and add-in example to share with all of you. Hope it helps

I put this together LATE last night and finshed tonight so beware there might be a mosquito just waiting to sting.

I added a few screenshots, a zip with the source andv a zip containing the addin and the .dll you can just unzip to your C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Addins or wherever you addins directory is.

Gotta go Enjoy

Paul

Currently to set up a bo

1.Add each business object(s)  to VisualStudio--- for 10 Bo's do this step 10 times

2.Launch the business object mapper

3.Configure the project

4.Configure the each Business Object--- for 10 Bo's do this step 10 times

5. Build the partial class(s). You would select the table and views you wich to create 

With Add In

1. Launch BoGenerator

2.Configure project (Same as step 3 above)

3.Select multiple Table(s) and View(s) from list.

4.Generate Business Object --- for 10 bo's it add's all 10 bo's to project and also configures the business object

5.Auto Launches the bo mapper then Build Partial Classes (Same as step 5)

Paul -



Good Morning!



Thanks... that was the clue I needed. I've got it working, after making a few additional adjustments to deal with VB v. C# differences (e.g., change to Inheritance).



Really appreciate your efforts in creating this BOB and in helping me get it operational in our environment. This baby will get some real use here, I anticipate.



Have a great weekend.

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Morning Alex,

Godd to hear that you got it working ok I am glad that it might help you out.

Have a good one

Paul

The BO Generator suddenly stopped working for me and eventually I tracked it down to DevExpress.  I had installed an Evaluation copy after using the BO Generator successfully and it then would only create the first GO and gave an error for all the rest (Template not valid for project).

A "Solution Items" folder was being created automatically when the BO Generator ran and it seemed to select this new folder somehow after the first BO was created and failed for every subsequent BO.  I couldn't figure out how to stop the creation of the "Solution Items" folder so I un-installed DevExpress.  Projects created when DevExpress was installed would still not work (kept creating the "Solution Items" folder).  But if I re-created the project (without DevExpress installed), the BO Generator worked perfectly and the "Solution Items" folder did not appear.

I'm a newbie to .Net so someone may know how to stop the creation of the "Solution Items" folder but I couldn't.

Hi Larry,

That sounds strange I have and use Dev-Express and have not run into any issues like the one you describe.

What version of Dev-Express are you using? Is it an Evaluation version ?

Where is "Solution Items" folder you are talking about being created? is it in the project iself or what?

Yes, it was an Evaluation version of DevExpress and I have no idea what the Solution Items folder is used for.  The Solution Items folder is a virtual folder that appeared directly under the Solution Title node at the top of the solution explorer when the BO Generator was running.  I found references to it in the DevExpress forum about problems it was causing when converting VS2005 to VS2008.  It also seemed to disappear when the solution was closed and re-opened.  I assume that the BO Generator is linked to the project by PK and since the Solution Items folder was created about the real project, it got the project PK previously assigned to the real project.