Monday, August 22, 2005 10:42 AM triplez

GAT Part 4 - Terminology

Recipes
Recipes are the core automation "engine" that automates the development activies of developers that they perform manually.

Actions
Actions are a series of instructions/steps in a Recipe to simplify complex or repetitive tasks. A recipe can contain multiple simple actions to do more complex tasks.

Wizards
Wizards are value gathering strategies to gather values of recipe arguments.

Templates
Templates are xml file stating the configuration of the solution/project/items. These can include Recipes to add a more integrated experience with working on the IDE.

T3
T3 (Text Template Transformation) is used to expand text templates written in any language (C# or VB). It uses scriptlets to generate code of the class. It's similar to CodeSmith.

I guess those are some of the core terminology in GAT. If there are some terminologies that I've written up but didn't explain here, please post a comment and I'll add it.

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