Comments on: Model Driven template/scaffolding addin for Visual Studio

By: magellings

magellings — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:38:46 +0000

thanks Erich. I’ve forwarded to our software process team to consider purchasing.

By: Joe Ocampo

Joe Ocampo — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 04:28:34 +0000

Dude I am going to use the Balsamiq with our Jira installation. This rocks!
http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups/jira#buy

BTW I think what you are doing with the scaffolding is awesome. Haven’t been in the .Net world in a while but it reminds me of a Ruby generator and this a GOOD thing!

By: Michael A. Smith

Michael A. Smith — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:13:00 +0000

Thanks for your response eric.

By: erichexter

erichexter — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:49:03 +0000

@magellings I am usinghttp://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups for the mock ups.. It is an awesome product.

@Michael A. Smith I do not intend to use… GAX/GAT So far all of my experience with all of the VS extention technologies have been a bad experience. Wether that is extening Resharper or trying out VSX, or GAX. At this point, I feel the best way to ensure that I can easily port something to the next version of visual studio or to the previous for that matter is to code against the Addin api. It is a painful process, but I do not think it will get any better until vs2010 comes out. I do not want to rely on a 3rd party abstraction that does not have a clear road map that will be supported at the time I need it. The only thing that I am relying on is the 3rd party Clarius T4 editor for language support in the .TT files. And that is not required for this solution to work.. it just makes editing the templates a better experience. I really dislike Visual Studio extensibility, but I really want more productivity out of it.

By: Kiliman

Kiliman — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:18:27 +0000

For the mockups, I believe he’s using Balsamiq Mockups http://www.balsamiq.com/

It’s a very nice tool.

By: David Alpert

David Alpert — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:39:31 +0000

i love it! i have been thinking about the same kind of thing but you’ve moved ahead of me so go to it and i’ll help if/where i can.

i am also impressed with your screen designs and the way you present those paper prototypes. I do a lot of UX design work and that is a very clean way to present draft screens.

By: Travis

Travis — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:48:43 +0000

This is cool, keep it up. Looks like a huge time saver.

By: magellings

magellings — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:16:07 +0000

Your screen designs w/ the post it notes are very cool. What tool are you using?

(Sorry if this is irrelevant)

By: Michael A. Smith

Michael A. Smith — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:15:28 +0000

I’m sorry about the failed link in the previous post (not that you needed it, you can just google GAX/GAT)

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:13:03 +0000

This looks very cool – I like what I’m seeing