Preface

Whenever you’re looking at buying a book, it seems to me there’s only one question that should be asked: “Why should I invest my hard-earned money in this book?”

This book is designed to make you, as a software developer, more productive. It does that by giving you all the tools you need to incorporate code generation into your standard development practices. Why would you buy this book? Because letting Visual Studio and .NET write the boring code lets you work on the important stuff.

All the code-generation tools you need are already available to you because you’re already using code generation. As soon as you start working in .NET and any version of Visual Studio, an enormous amount of code is being created for you. For instance, if ...

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