Is there a way to print entity information from the llbl designer? I need to create some documentation for other developers.

Something like CustomerEntity -> Table CUS104 Fields: Recordid -> CUS104ID CustomerName -> cname

etc etc

If not that would be a good feature to add... Thanks!

Not at the moment. You could generate a .chm documentation file from the generated code which does contain this information, using ndoc for example. Then the developers could search and browse through the info on their system instead through paper

do you happen to know anything other than ndoc? It doesn't work very well with vs.net 2005

jspanocsi wrote:

do you happen to know anything other than ndoc? It doesn't work very well with vs.net 2005

You mean with generics ? I havent tried ndoc with code specially written for .net 2.0.

no just in general. I can't run ndoc on an llbl gened project that's compiled in 2005. It blows up. Sorry I don't have the error in front of me or I'd post it. You have to have vs 2003 installed to get ndoc to even work and I don't have that at work.

I haven't tried it for automated doc production, but if you sign up for the visual studio integration partner program (it's free) at the msdn site, you can download the SDK for vs.net 2005, which comes with a 3rd party documentation toolkit. Again, I'm not sure if it's capable of generating automated documentation.

this got me in the right direction. The product in the sdk was something by innovasys. this lead me to documentX which does this. It's pretty good, but about 450 bucks.

this lead me to try other things first... One thought for the LLBL IDE is to have the grids export to excel. This would probably be a quick easy solution for you. I'm not sure about Janus grid, but with infragistics it was as easy as droping an export control on the form and pointing it at the grid.

Would your pluging model allow for me doing this? I can get to everything in the llbl file right? I might look into this if I have time.

jspanocsi wrote:

this got me in the right direction. The product in the sdk was something by innovasys. this lead me to documentX which does this. It's pretty good, but about 450 bucks.

this lead me to try other things first... One thought for the LLBL IDE is to have the grids export to excel. This would probably be a quick easy solution for you. I'm not sure about Janus grid, but with infragistics it was as easy as droping an export control on the form and pointing it at the grid.

Would your pluging model allow for me doing this? I can get to everything in the llbl file right? I might look into this if I have time.

It's an excellent option for a plugin You can access any object, property and method in the project file. So you can export whatever you like to whatever format you need