Comments on: Silverlight Dependency Property Code Generation

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By: Colin Eberhardt

Colin Eberhardt — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:23:30 +0000

Hi Ruslan, Thanks for the feedback. Yes, I agree, code snippets help relieve the tedium of DPs quite nicely, but they do have significant drawbacks. I would like to quote David Anson’s (a Microsoft developer for Silverlight Toolkit) opinion on this one:

“The problem I have with snippets is that they’re applied once and then never changed again. It’s like when folks do copy+paste of big code blocks to implement something new – it becomes a maintainability challenge very quickly. The nice thing about the T4 templates approach is that if you decide to make a change to the way you do your DependencyProperties, you can make it in one place and ALL your code automatically benefits. Plus the size of your code files is kept way down since there’s not all this redundant stuff in your face. Something like on-demand code generation seems the right way to go here – and T4 seems to do the job pretty conveniently. ”

Quoted from this forum:
http://groups.google.com/group/wpf-disciples/browse_frm/thread/214e48e777b2698a

However, if Resharper gives you everything you need (it certainly has some very nice features), then good for you!

Regards, Colin E.

By: Ruslan Urban

Ruslan Urban — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:59:46 +0000

I think, this is a bit of an overkill for the purpose. The same can be achieved with a code snippet. I am using Resharper, and it took only about a minute to create a Resharper live template to implement a dependency property that implements identical code.

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:27:44 +0000

Cool article – I did a few mnonths of WPF and this was one of the irritations I had – good solution!!!

Regards
Lee

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DotNetShoutout — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:55:44 +0000

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