Caffeinated Wisdom

Model Generator Helper is a small program that will allow you to easily create view models from your logic models by copying the logic model's properties and the properties' attributes. The original purpose of the program was to copy the validation annotations to my view models so that I would not have to copy and paste them. The program can also read the ColumnAttribute of Linq2SQL generated classes and create DataAnnotation attributes for them (e.g.: Requires attribute and the StringLength attribute). Sometimes you want to pass to your views a class different from your raw classes generated from the database. For example, lets say we have this logical model classes: class Payment { [Max(1200)] public int Amount {get; set;} public int PersonID {get; set;} } class Person { [ StringLength (50)] public string Name {get; set;} public int PersonID {get; set;} } And you need a View model for your view that allows the user to edit the name of the pe...