I hope to have a beta (which will have very rough edges, no docs but it's fairly straight forward) of v2.0 of templatestudio on tuesday or wednesday.

Editing templates is roughly the same, though templatebindings management has been added and which made the editor more flexible. I've left out editing platform, language and task files, as editing these is not that common and if you want to, it's best done in vs.net with the xsd's loaded for full intellisense; I didn't want to re-do that.. poorly

templatestudio v2.0 will work with llblgen pro v2.0. It's called 'v2.0' because it's for llblgen pro v2.0. Don't see this as a big step forward in featureset, as the goal for the application stayed the same: be able to create/modify templateid-filename bindings and to edit templates, as well as run templates/tasks.

For running tasks, the system uses the same preset system as LLBLGen Pro does, so you can re-use the presets in both applications.

Hey Frans, a tutorial / video would be great for those just starting to work with templates studio(2)... I dont want to use CodeSmith and the MS GAT/GAX tools are too bugy at the moment but I definitely need a DSL system now so with the strong DAL Layer Cool J generates in the background I would really like to give it a try for some steps further... bur I need more doc input/samples etc..

It will be very straight forward, I can assure you . That is, after someone has read the sdk docs about templatebindings, tasks etc. files. That's essential info to write a decent template, no video can make up for that.

Ok, I've a couple of FIXME's to solve before release but for the rest it looks good for a release tomorrow (wednesday) . Everything seems to work, so I think it's a good first beta to start with.

As I think a couple of pre-fab tasks and presets will come in handy, I'll add a few to the initial beta, I'm sure you all will come up with more

No docs yet, besides the v2.0 SDK docs of course.

Released!

http://www.llblgen.com/tinyforum/Messages.aspx?ThreadID=7214

New version uploade:

CHANGELOG

14-aug-2006: * ADDED: Documentation. 14-aug-2006: * CHANGED: Language definition for TDL, it's now up to date with all the v2.0 statements 14-aug-2006: * CHANGED: Predefined templateID list has been updated. 14-aug-2006: * ADDED: Search/replace in selection has been added. Search is still single-document due to the lack of a global undo-buffer because the undo buffer of the edit controls are located inside the edit controls. 14-aug-2006: * FIX: TDL Intellisense crashed because the icon used for the items was removed. 14-aug-2006: * FIX: Wrong help files were opened 14-aug-2006: * FIX: TemplateBindingsViewer didn't have a minimum size

It's recommended that, if you're using LPT templates, you update the task performers with today's new build of the taskperformers assemblies.

Cool, btw, why is there a refersh of almost everything (14th aug)? IOW does one need to refresh everything?

mihies wrote:

Cool, btw, why is there a refersh of almost everything (14th aug)? IOW does one need to refresh everything?

What do you mean by 'refresh of almost everything' ? Or do you mean: a lot of the elements were updated? I fixed a couple of issues here and there, and they weren't related to template studio except the lpt engine bug.

Nevermind, I've found the "what's new file" :-) Yes, I did mean that download section is full of new files.

mihies wrote:

Nevermind, I've found the "what's new file" :-) Yes, I did mean that download section is full of new files.

Just check the changelog viewer. Often it's a change /fix you don't particularly need because it's for a particular db, template engine, dqe etc. you don't use.

I've uploaded a new version. It's now out of beta. There were a couple of issues fixed in this one:

04-sep-2006: * CHANGED: Template studio is now marked as 'final'. 04-sep-2006: * FIX: The size of the templatebindings editor is now preserved between sessions. 04-sep-2006: * FIX: When no filename was specified in the templatebindings editor when a new templatebindings file was created, an exception was thrown.