Inherited Class Skeleton Generator

Ivan Zderadicka
Aug 30, 2006
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Inherited Class Skeleton Generator (ICSG) is a handy tool, which can be used to make your programming under .NET productive. It quickly generates class skeleton with needed members. ICSG is written in C# and utilizes Reflection and CodeDom namespaces of .NET.

Features of ICSG include:

Multiple language support (C#, VB.NET, JScript)
Compact interface with class tree view, where you can easily choose which members to implement
Different options for code generation, interesting options are: Comments generation,
  1. Usage of short or full type names,
  2. Mapping of type names to language keywords,
  3. Options to make members virtual,
  4. and more ..
Convenient type selector dialog with tree view of all types in the project or
You can quickly type names manually
Integration with Visual Studion .NET
Easy integration with other IDEs and editors (just change one class, which gets referenced assemblies)
And more ...

Here is ICSG main interface:

And here is type selector dialog:

This screen shot shows how ICSG is integrated with VS.NET - it can be easily accessible in Add New Item dialog:

And here is a sample of C# code generated by the tool - it is a class that inherits from System.IO.Stream and implements System.Collections.ICollection interface:

namespace SomeNamespace
{
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Collections;
public class SampleClass : Stream, ICollection
{
public SampleClass()
{
}
public override bool CanRead
{
get
{
return false;
}
}
public override bool CanSeek
{
get
{
return false;
}
}
public override bool CanWrite
{
get
{
return false;
}
}
public override long Length
{
get
{
return 0;
}
}
public override long Position
{
get
{
return 0;
}
set
{
}
}
public virtual int Count
{
get
{
return 0;
}
}
public virtual bool IsSynchronized
{
get
{
return false;
}
}
public virtual object SyncRoot
{
get
{
return null;
}
}
public override void Flush()
{
}
public override int Read(Byte[] buffer, int offset, int count)
{
return 0;
}
public override long Seek(long offset, SeekOrigin origin)
{
return 0;
}
public override void SetLength(long value)
{
}
public override void Write(Byte[] buffer, int offset, int count)
{
}
public override void Close()
{
}
public virtual void CopyTo(Array array, int index)
{
}
public virtual IEnumerator GetEnumerator()
{
return null;
}
}
}