Practical Code Generation in .NET: Covering Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010

Chapter 10. Case Study: Generating Validation Code

In this chapter:

• Defining the Problem

• Starting the Code-Generation Project

• Wiring Up the Add-In

• Starting the Generation Utility

• Defining a Template

• Generating Code

• Specifying Code with the CodeDom

• Generating Code in the Target Language

• Supporting “Projectless” Websites

• Handling Errors

• Building a Complete Code-Generation Solution

ASP.NET provides a range of validation controls, but noticeable by its absence is a control that validates data by checking it against a value in a table. This case study uses code generation in combination with an ASP.NET validation control to fill that gap. At the end of this chapter, I also use some of the project-specific objects described ...