History

Until 2009-07 the uigen.exe project was part of
the re-motion project at https://svn.re-motion.org/svn/Remotion/trunk.
In 2009-07 the uigen.exe project has been moved to
https://svn.re-motion.org/svn/Remotion-Contrib/Remotion.ObjectBinding.Web.CodeGenerator.

The project name of uigen.exe thus is
Remotion.ObjectBinding.Web.CodeGenerator, renamed from the shorter
Web.CodeGenerator.

As you might infer, the terms "Web.CodeGenerator" and "uigen.exe"
are more or less synonymous. Here we use "uigen.exe" when talking
about the code generator from the user's perspective. We use
"Web.CodeGenerator" when talking about the code generator from
the maintainer's perspective.

Directories and components

In the project's top level (trunk) directory you will find these
files and directories:

• build
  By convention, this is where the build result is stored.

• Core
  By convention, this is the meat of the project's source code;
  in this case, uigen.exe.

• lib
  By convention, this is a copy of the version of re-motion that
  is compatible with the version of uigen.exe. It must always
  be the same as the one the PhoneBook web application uses (where the
  same copy is stored in the PhoneBook directory's Remotion
  sub-directory).

• Templates
  This is a local template tree and considered the "master" template
  tree where all other copies eventually come from. To learn more
  about those copies and how they are used by the maintainer of
  the uigen.exe project, read
  Duplicate directories (trees) and master directories
  This directory must be identical with the template directory in
  PhoneBook\Remotion\UIGenTemplates.

• build.cmd
  Builds uigen.exe by invoking the NAnt build uigen.build,
  which in turn calls the Remotion.ObjectBinding.Web.CodeGenerator.build
  file located in the Core sub-directory (see above). The build
  does not only compile the source code, it does also
  • copy the Templates directory to the build directory
  • copy the lib directory to the build directory
  • zips the build results in the build directory (see next item: uigen.zip

• uigen.zip
  This file contains the build results (without source code) in one
  convenient package.

See also

re-motion contrib repository