I'm about to do the 4th regen of a business object using the MM.NET Business Layer Generator.

Each time I saved custom code off in notepad, and then re-inserted it into the newly genned business objects.

But why not use partial classes to keep the custom code separate from the generated code?

Anyone have tips/tricks/comments here?

I'm thinking adding

MyBusinessCustom.cs
MyBusinessDefaultsCustom.cs
MyBusinessRulesCustom.cs

to the standard generated

MyBusiness.cs
MyBusinessDefaults.cs
MyBusinessRules.cs
MyBusinessEntity.cs
MyBusinessDataAccess.cs

If this works out, I guess I'll eventually add something to the generator to create the ...Custom.cs files if they don't already exist.

Thanks!

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On the other hand, (duh,) when the schema changes I only need to regen the DataAccess and Entity objects, which I've never made changes to.

I can typically hand code schema changes to Defaults and HookSetDefaultValues() in the business object.

I was regenning the business object too. Maybe doing a ...RulesCustom.cs for the Rules object would make sense, but I don't have rules on this particular business object.