Re: Generating a CRUD UI

2014-11-06 Thread Grant Maw
I've been using Codesmith Generator for years. Its fast and simple, and can do pretty much anything you care to throw at it. On 6 November 2014 11:28, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Folks, I have a SQL Server Express 2008 database with about 20 tables with neat relationships and I'd like to

Generating a CRUD UI

2014-11-05 Thread Greg Keogh
Folks, I have a SQL Server Express 2008 database with about 20 tables with neat relationships and I'd like to have a desktop utility to maintain the tables. I just want to list, edit, create and delete rows. A few years ago I was faced with a similar situation and I used T4 templates to spit out

Re: Generating a CRUD UI

2014-11-05 Thread Nathan Schultz
Hi Greg, I'm in a similar position; I have a suite of My Generation templates for CRUD + UI development, but My Generation is getting long in the tooth, doesn't play well in newer versions of Windows, and seems to be dying a long and slow death. There is CodeSmith Generator, but it's more than

Re: Generating a CRUD UI

2014-11-05 Thread Greg Keogh
Yann mentioned LightSwitch, which I completely forgot about. I added it to my VS2013 installation and I'm trying it out now. As usual with these sorts of frameworks, I'm sure it will do most of what I want, but there are so many screens and selectors and options that I can't find what I actually