Some feedback....

This app is an awesome idea i'm on day 20 of my trial but i won't be buying it at present.
The reason is quite simply it doesn't work , or rather not to a standard that i would pay for

Problems i've had :

VB Generation

Either causes the compiler to crash or produces code with many errors. unusable

master/detail

got 1 master to 1 child working ok , if i set up multiple children then the wizard errors with "component key null"

the list for foriegn keys should be ristrected to the child table , at present it gives a list of all the fields in every table included...

if i setup the search params and return to that page again they all reset back to "AND"

major issues with removing the primary key from the list of searchable items , produces errors.

if i use the same drop down list for a table multiple times then the definition is created for each time it is used

paging doesn't work on main pages but does on child pages



other

publishexception and display error never populated

windows 7 / vista

default install renders it unusable , installing it to a dir outside of program files is ok

having long names for objects causes errors in code due to the formatting

if i set up roles the default connection string is used in the code , not the one i set up

There are many other bits i found irritaing but the above list is the worst of the bunch

This product has a LOT of potential but it really should be a beta or alpha until you can get it to as satisfactory standard

Hi Simon

Thank you for taking time to evaluate Code Complete and for your honest feedback. I appreciate that. Your comments will be taken into account for the next release.

I would like to take this opportunity to announce that we are in the process of completely "re-engineering" Code Complete. The new version of Code Complete is being rewritten from ground up. We will be sending a newsletter shortly setting in details what we are planning to deliver but in short this is what we have in mind:

-Code Complete will include a model designer: with the new designer, you will be able to generate an application model based on a database schema, an entity framework model or create a model from scratch.
-Using the new designer, you can create an entity model, a business model and a presentation layer model
-The designer will provide comprehensive mapping screens that will enable a developer to map business classes to one or multiple entities. The entity model can contain entities mapped to tables, SQL or stored procedures from multiple databases.
-Each model will be stored in a single XML file
-In addition to XSLT templates, we are looking into providing T4 templates as an alternative for generating code.

Regards

Philip

I have uploaded a new release build of 4.2 that fixes the following problems:

- VS2008 crashing when generating a VB.NET web application: fixed
- Search parameters reset back to "AND": Fixed
- Paging on Search pages: Fixed
- Few other bugs reported in templates

In addition, we have included an option on the final screen of the solution generation wizard that can be used to disable the code formatting of the code files during the generation process. Deselecting this option improves performance dramatically (by a factor of 10 or more).
Regards

Philip

Nice , although i think the trial period has expired so i'll setup a VM and check it out

for me the 2 big things was not being able to create multiple children in master / child and the foreign key combo being filled with every field from every included table instead of just
from the child table
also publishexception and display error never got populated

also when using roles it looks as if you only use the edittemplate to view data , this causes a problem when you have roles for view only and edit , personaly i hatethe interface for the page templates in vs as its ugly and slow