Brief Presentation on Cruatech's Code Automation tool, Code Robot

1. Derek Cassidy

2.  What is CodeRobot
 Components
 Examples
 Features
 Possible Uses
 Next Steps

3.  Tool for auto generation of code projects
 Generic text rules can apply to any language
 Similar to CodeSmith Generator Application
http://www.codesmithtools.com/

4.  1. Template Creator
◦ Tool to create a template project from current
source code
◦ Allow editing of the project and adding tags without
breaking compilation
◦ This part would be the product differentiator to
CodeSmith Generator
 2. Code Generator
◦ Tool to create output source code from CodeRobot
template
◦ Allow user to configure all options and generate
project (list of options or wizard driven)

5.  Select text you want to create rule for and
right click for options

6.  Include/Exclude Section
 Rule tags:

7.  Auto generate project GUID

8.  Setup Rule Options in CodeRobot and Generate Code

9.  Resulting Project

10.  Setup Include/Exclude Option
 Outputs: or

11.  Templates for any language
 Define set of rules for template
◦ Text Replace
◦ File/Text include/exclude
◦ Specific code generation e.g. generate GUID
 Use comment style of particular language to
allow code to still compile with CodeRobot
tags
 Visual Studio / other dev environment plugins
 Project browser for all templates

12.  Generate templates for lots of targets
◦ PC / Web / Mobile
◦ Community driven
 Redist tool for SDK templates, companies
with SDK’s provide template with generation
tool
 Rules for Porting code
 …

13.  Develop feature list
 Design functional UI
 Incrementally add features as is useful for
Recurring Projects