Ajax Scaffolding generator with Monorail: a VS.NET 2005 addin

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In my previous article, I explained how by modifying Marc Andre Cournoyer's generator, we made it generate Ajax based, scaffolding code for Castle MonoRail. In the meantime, my colleague Gabi Munteanu, managed to put together a Visual Studio 2005 addin, exactly for this purpose.

1. Generate the model

Let's start from an generated ActiveRecord class called Project we had the last time, generating the ajax scaffolding code needed for the project:

obtaining:

using Castle.ActiveRecord;

namespace Models
{
///

/// An instance of this class represents a Project.
///
[ActiveRecord]
public class Project : ActiveRecordValidationBase {
#region Fields
private int _id;
private string _name;
private string _description;
#endregion

#region Persistent properties
[PrimaryKey]
public int Id {
get { return _id; }
set { _id = value; }
}
[Property]
public string Name {
get { return _name; }
set { _name = value; }
}
[Property]
public string Description {
get { return _description; }
set { _description = value; }
}
#endregion

}

}


Using the ActiveRecordStarter.CreateSchema we also create the corresponding database table.

2. Generate the scaffold

then

Unfortunetely, we'll still have to manually include the files in the project (still working on this):

3. Final adjustments

In order to make it work we need some adjustments to our Project class:

using System.Collections;
using Castle.ActiveRecord;
using NHibernate.Expression;

namespace Models
{
///

/// An instance of this class represents a Project.
///
[ActiveRecord]
public class Project : ActiveRecordValidationBase {
#region Fields
private int _id;
private string _name;
private string _description;
#endregion

internal static IList FindAll()
{
return FindAll(typeof(Project));
}

internal static IList FindAll(string property)
{
return property.Equals("") ? FindAll(typeof(Project), new Order[1] { Order.Desc("Id") }) : FindAll(typeof(Project), new Order[1] { Order.Asc(property) });
}

internal static Project Find(int id)
{
return FindByPrimaryKey(typeof(Project), id) as Project;
}

#region Persistent properties
[PrimaryKey]
public int Id {
get { return _id; }
set { _id = value; }
}
[Property]
public string Name {
get { return _name; }
set { _name = value; }
}
[Property]
public string Description {
get { return _description; }
set { _description = value; }
}
#endregion


}

}


Now we see the result:

Conclusion

The project is till in early stages, but it can still generate very good code and save a lot of time needed to generate the same all CRUD code, needed in any application.