Code Generator (edit)

https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/21507/DAL-Class-and-Transact-SQL-Generator-for-C-and-VB

http://www.nullskull.com/articles/adonet_source_code_generator.asp

C# DAL Method Code Generator

https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/26191/%2FArticles%2F26191%2FC-DAL-Method-Code-Generator

https://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/Download.aspx?file=/KB/cs/dalmethodcodegenerator/CodeGenerator.zip

Code Generator for .Net and SQL Server

https://sourceforge.net/projects/codegenconnect/

Working with Word template in C#

https://www.add-in-express.com/creating-addins-blog/cat/howto-samples/

Multi Threading

https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/43994/The-Practical-Guide-to-Multithreading-Part-1

https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/65158/The-Practical-Guide-to-Multithreading-Part-2

Alternative to Lightswitch

Radzen

Radzen is a rapid application development solution for Angular. Create responsive apps via drag and drop and connect them to REST APIs SQL databases.

https://www.radzen.com/

CUBA.platform

A Full Stack Enterprise Java Framework with lots of out of the box functionality and amazing tooling to manage the project.

Question:

Lightswitch seems to be a good solution but the HTML UI is very poor, and Silverlight is limiting.

I am looking in general for a good rapid framework in .NET to create a mid-size CRM (data centric application).

Must Have:

• Custom entities with many to one relations
• Custom fields (text, combo, relation picker, date)
• File uploads
• Custom views for each entity with custom query
• User management (roles & permissions)
• HTML on the client side (not Flash or Silverlight)

Nice to have:

• My custom fields
• Reporting
• Custom view per user role / user group / user
• Multi device HTML client
• Custom workflow

There are 2 solution that I know which are similar, but:

• http://www.vidyano.com/ is too expensive
• http://www.coevery.com the documentation is in Chinese

Answer:

Here are some free alternatives to LightSwitch:

• Evolutility
• AppFlower
• AppGini
• AribaWeb
• WaveMaker
• Wakanda
• Portofino
• nuBuilder
• Morfik
• Limbas
• CrossUI

https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/15728/Write-your-own-Code-Generator-or-Template-Engine-i

https://tomassetti.me/parsing-in-csharp/

.NET Code Generator

• T4 Text Templates
• Code Trigger

T4 Text Templates

Design-time T4 text templates let you generate program code and other files in your Visual Studio project

Code Trigger

https://www.codetrigger.com

Review Code Trigger

http://www.devride.com/index.php/codetrigger-one-of-the-best-net-code-generator/

As a project manager one would think of following things:

a- Setup code base.
b- Graphics Design Resources availability.
c- Design and architecture.
d- Meeting deadlines.

As a developer I would think of following:

a- Which design pattern to follow.
b- 4 entities. Each entitiy should provide atleast basic CRUD (Create, read, Update and Delete) operations in Data Access Layer.
c- Performance of code
d- Bug free code
e- Web Service Layer
f- Dependency Injection in code? Ninject, Unity, Autofac?
g- Repository Pattern.
h- Writing the access layer.

For a medium to large scale project i must say CodeTrigger is the best code generator tool ever.

Best Features:

a- Clean & quality code
b- Bug free code
c- Performance
d- Easily manage changes during sprints, one click and you get your code changes
e- Visual Studio integration
f- Nice Criteria query API
g- Nice Repository pattern implementation
h- Generate SQL Stored procedures.
i- Support for logging
j- Exception handling support
k- Unit of work pattern
l- Dependency injection pattern using either Unity or ninject
m- Generates interface definitions.