Auto-generate WebControls
- by Adrian K
I want to generate .net code from a template so that it more rapid, so lazy developers (and I mean that in the nicest possible way!) don't have to write them in the IDE, compile them, etc...
I know I can roll my own tool which generates the code using reflection (by reading in some text file, etc), but I just wondered if there was an easier than starting from scratch since this is what ASP.NET basically does already; so is there anyway to leverage this?
E.g. to quote Peter A. Bromberg:
Even an ASPX page with no code on it
gets turned into an instance of the
System.Web.UI.Page class. The page is
parsed by the ASP.NET engine when it
is first requested, and then its JIT
compiled version is cached in the
Temporary ASP.NET Files folder as long
as the application is running and the
.aspx page hasn't been changed.
Ideally I want to auto-generate WebControls, but examples of anything closely related will do.
C# Examples preferred also, but anything considered :)
