Shhh! My co-workers might catch on!

CodeSmith rocks, indeed. And rocks absolutely. I've created my own custom templates that I can use to generate all my stored procedures, DAL classes, and entity classes with a few clicks of a mouse. These classes utilize the Microsoft Application Blocks for Data Access and Exception Management, among other things I've create myself. This provides my projects with a solid, tested framework so that I can focus on the good stuff :)

So unlike ReSharper, does this one work with VB?

I've been using CodeSmith for over a year now and I don't think I can live without it!

Geoff: CodeSmith will generate any kind of code you need. You create your template (or tweak any of the many included) and it generates the text. It's very "ASP like" in that it uses substitution to create output. Sounds simplistic, but you can generate reams of "foundational" type code in seconds. You'll regret it if you don't check it out.

Yes. Codesmith Rocks so hard, that I've been thinking of renaming the CodeBetter.Com site to "CodeBetter.Com - CodeSmith Rocks!"

I posted about my experiences with CodeSmith and how much time it saved me with a hobby project:

http://blogs.conchango.com/howardvanrooijen/archive/2005/01/06/703.aspx

While I haven't gotten a chance to test out CodeSmith (and apparently, I need to get on that right away!) I am a big supporter of the concept of code generation. Not only is code that writes code sexy as a concept, but it can save you an immense amount of time, and very possibly get your out of repitive motion injuries to boot!

I find it is especially powerful to generate templates or code generators for the tasks that are very common in the applications you are designing. For example, anytime someone wants a field added to the database, that should be a simple button click on a code generator.

Also, the efficientcy gain is two-fold because you don't have to write the code in the first place, and you also don't have to debug the code afterwards either. Even if you did happen to find a bug in your pattern, to reproduce all the effected code with the updated bug fix, you just rerun the code generator.

The first time you write 20,000 lines of data access layer code in a minute, you will be hooked on code generation.

There are a new open source alternative to CodeSmith, this is SmartCode

look in http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/SmartCode-Code_Generation.asp