Designer Generated Code

Hi All,

Does anyone know how to modify the rules visual studio (or the designer)
uses to generate it's dataset, datatable, datarow, datatableadapter classes
when you use the wizard to generate a strongly typed dataset from a database
table/stored proc? I want the code that it outputs to be slightly modified.
I do not want to extend or use partial classes to customise the class and I
do not mean that I want to modify the designer generated code by hand. I
want to modify the rules that the designer uses to generate that code. I
have been informed that this is possible but know nothing more. Can anyone
help me with this?

Thanks,
Jesse

You're looking for the Template directory.

A couple of links that can get you started. Funny...I was playing around
with modifying the templates last night.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...o+templates+vsz
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms242498.aspx
http://www.codeproject.com/useritem...te_in_VSNet.asp

"Jessard" <Jessard@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C7B00D31-023D-4092-99C7-692C370CC289@microsoft.com...
> Hi All,
>
> Does anyone know how to modify the rules visual studio (or the designer)
> uses to generate it's dataset, datatable, datarow, datatableadapter
> classes
> when you use the wizard to generate a strongly typed dataset from a
> database
> table/stored proc? I want the code that it outputs to be slightly
> modified.
> I do not want to extend or use partial classes to customise the class and
> I
> do not mean that I want to modify the designer generated code by hand. I
> want to modify the rules that the designer uses to generate that code. I
> have been informed that this is possible but know nothing more. Can
> anyone
> help me with this?
>
> Thanks,
> Jesse

Thanks for the direction Scott,

I'll look into it.

Jesse

"Scott Glasgow" wrote:

> You're looking for the Template directory.
>
> A couple of links that can get you started. Funny...I was playing around
> with modifying the templates last night.
>
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...o+templates+vsz
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms242498.aspx
> http://www.codeproject.com/useritem...te_in_VSNet.asp
>
> "Jessard" <Jessard@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C7B00D31-023D-4092-99C7-692C370CC289@microsoft.com...
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Does anyone know how to modify the rules visual studio (or the designer)
> > uses to generate it's dataset, datatable, datarow, datatableadapter
> > classes
> > when you use the wizard to generate a strongly typed dataset from a
> > database
> > table/stored proc? I want the code that it outputs to be slightly
> > modified.
> > I do not want to extend or use partial classes to customise the class and
> > I
> > do not mean that I want to modify the designer generated code by hand. I
> > want to modify the rules that the designer uses to generate that code. I
> > have been informed that this is possible but know nothing more. Can
> > anyone
> > help me with this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jesse
>