Generate Code From Custom File Formats

摘要

You're writing the same code over and over again with only minor changes, and you're about to do it again. Stop. If you're creating a standalone class (either a class that you'll call from your application's code or a class that you can inherit from), build a custom tool that writes the code for you now and every time you'll need it. You're already using a custom tool every time you add a dataset to an application. VS sets the CustomTool property of the dataset's .XSD to MSDataSetGenerator. Whenever you close the .XSD file-or, in Visual Studio 2008 (VS 2008), whenever you switch away from the file-VS passes MSDataSetGenerator the contents of the .XSD file, which MSDataSetGenerator then converts to code for the .XSD's code file and hands back to Visual Studio.