This Visual Studio add-in aims to give the developer a code generation tool based on XML and XSLT that is really simple to use. If you already know XML and XSLT you will hit the ground running. If not, it is a great way to learn those two technologies.
Features:
* Really easy to use.
* No lock in. This add in is strictly a convenience. The XML and XSLT files
used are completely independent of Visual Studio XGen and can be used elsewhere. ... read more
This Visual Studio add-in aims to give the developer a code generation tool based on XML and XSLT that is really simple to use. If you already know XML and XSLT you will hit the ground running. If not, it is a great way to learn those two technologies.
Features:
* Really easy to use.
* No lock in. This add in is strictly a convenience. The XML and XSLT files
used are completely independent of Visual Studio XGen and can be used elsewhere.... read more
This Visual Studio add-in aims to give the developer a code generation tool based on XML and XSLT that is really simple to use. If you already know XML and XSLT you will hit the ground running. If not, it is a great way to learn those two technologies.
Note!!! If you have used previous versions of Visual Studio XGen, please note that the concept of
translating has changed to the more correct name of transforming. This means that the translate file
that used to have extension .xtranslate now is a transformation file with extension .xtr.xml.
Please read the change log for more information.... read more
We are getting closer and closer to a stable release.
This Visual Studio add-in aims to give the developer a code generation tool based on XML and XSLT that is really simple to use. If you already know XML and XSLT you will hit the ground running. If not, it is a great way to learn those two technologies.
Features:
* Really simple to use. There is only one command and a specification file called an xtranslate file.... read more
This Visual Studio add-in aims to give the developer a code generation tool based on XML and XSLT that is really simple to use. If you already know XML and XSLT you will hit the ground running. If not, it is a great way to learn those two technologies.
Features:
* Really simple to use. There is only one command and a specification file called an xtranslate file.
* No lock in. This add in is strictly a convenience. The XML and XSLT files used are completely independent of Visual Studio XGen and can be used elsewhere. The purpose of the xtranslate file is strictly to define how the XML files should be translated using the XSLT files.... read more
This beta improves error reporting and adds project variables to the xtranslate file.
Please see release notes for further details.
With Beta 6 comes schema support for the xtranslate file.
Change your top level tag to
<xtranslations xmlns = "http://vsxgen.sourceforge.net/XTranslateSchema.xsd">
And you'll get good error messages if something is wrong with your xtranslate file.
Beta 5 has been released. There are no changes to the xtranslate, xsource and xtemplate files compared to developer release v20050306. If you are upgrading from Beta 4 there are big differences though. Please read the documentation at http://vsxgen.sourceforge.net for more information.
The web pages at vsxgen.sourceforge.net are now up to date with version v20050306.
Starting with developer release v20050306 the way files are generated has changed. A new file has been introduced, the .xtranslate file. In this file you can specify how the translation should be done. There is no documentation for the new format yet and the format may change. Until the new documentation is available, please use Beta 4.
Even though the format is changing the .xsource and .xtranslate will remain virtually unchanged. The only difference is that the parameters for the xsource tag will go away and be moved into the .xtranslate file.
Fixed problem with .xsource files in folders not getting generated (fix provided by yoeri).
Fixed problem with output not always working (fix provided by yoeri).
vsxgen output pane is now activated when transformation is done.
Transformation is now only done when the .xsource or .xtemplate files changed since last code generation.
A problem with output of some characters that are special for XML, such as < and & has been fixed. Also, the .xsource and .xtemplate files that are open when generation starts are saved if they have unsaved changes.
The two biggest changes in this release is that the stylesheet attribute in the xsource element changed to xtemplate. The error reporting when something goes wrong during transformation has also been improved.
The first publicly available version of vsxgen has been release. Install it and give it a spin.
The Visual Studio XGen project is officially started. If you want a simple way to generate HTML, ASP pages, C#, VB, C++ or what have you, by using pure XML and XSLT then Visual Studio XGen may be for you.