Prototyping

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Does anyone here use prototyping tools? I'm building one myself as I feel
like I'm doing the same thing over and over again with the majority of my
projects, how do people generally feel about them? Do people ever use the
generated code in production?

Thoughts appreciated.

Chris.
 
I for one do all my prototyping in VS.net. Very easy to put together a good
looking UI. The secret to prototyping though is to Never use the prototyped
code in the production project. Always start over with a clean project once
the user accepts the prototype. This avoids having all the garbage code we
use in a prototype carrying forward to production.

Kirk Graves
KRGIT Software
 
My feelings also, you get that "Thats a bit dirty, but I'll tidy it up
later" feeling and six months later the dirty code turns up in production.
I wasn't actually thinking about UI design more so the data tier, this is
the area I spend most of my time developing and yet it seems to be mostly
repetative.

I have the basics already developed using reflection and custom attributes
but I'm undecided as to whether or not to develop it any further, I know
I'll benefit from it in it's present state but I'm interested in other
people views. Some kind of automatic generation of the tables,
relationships, fields and attributes would be a bonus, but may take some
time to develop.

Chris.
 
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