Using CodeSmith Project from Windows Explorer

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Last updated: Dec 14, 2011 by Anonymous
Introduction

A CodeSmith Project gives you the ability to control all aspects of your CodeSmith project from Windows Explorer. This is extremely useful because it does not require you to launch CodeSmith Studio, just to manage your projects, change or add outputs, etc. This type of flexibility make using a CodeSmith Project very useful.

CodeSmith Projects from Windows Explorer

CodeSmith Projects expose a right-click context menu from within Windows Explorer. 

The menu options include:

  1. Generate Outputs
  2. Manage Outputs
  3. Add Outputs

Generation Tasks

You are able to view all of the generation task details as you Generate Outputs, which is especially useful so that you can view the progress of your generation project while still not having to open CodeSmith.