Welcome to the CodeSmith Generator developer's API documentation. The CodeSmith Generator API documentation allows you to discover and consume the various CodeSmith Generator features programmatically. The Generator API documentation is available both in online and offline formats.

CodeSmith Generator exposes the entire operation of the CodeSmith Generator engine through an API. Through this API, you can compile templates, retrieve any errors, create instances of templates, get the generated source code, fill in template metadata, and ultimately render a template's output to a TextWriter, file, or string. This API allows you to perform many CodeSmith Generator operations from your own code in any .NET language, and lets you programmatically execute CodeSmith Generator templates from within your own code.

Remember, CodeSmith Generator is licensed on a per-developer basis. If your application depends on programmatically executing CodeSmith Generator templates, each user must have a license to use CodeSmith Generator.

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