Introduction
While I am not a huge fan of code generation, I do believe it has its place in software engineering. It is perfect for generating repetitive and mundane code, like CRUD (create
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, retrieve, update, delete) functionality.
I know there's other tools out there that do this as well, as well as others who've made their own code generation tools. But I like writing my own tools. And, I did not want to spend a significant amount of money or time learning commercially available code generation software.
So I came up with SQLCODEGEN.EXE to generate C# data access code.
As delivered, it only works for Microsoft SQL Server. However, there are ways to make it work for other data sources as well. [Less]