(this post is an appendix to my prior post on Basic Code Generation with XSLT, because I forgot this bit the first time!)

I just wanted to expand on thsi line in the VB code part of the template:

Public Class DatabaseAccess
    Inherits ConvienientBaseClass

Including a (facetiously named) base class for the generated code was no accident.  It provides a good way to seperate the generated code from the human written code.  All the generated code should be the tedious, repetitive, error prone code.  Exception handling, transaction enrolement, logging etc should be implemented in the base class so it can be ripped out if need be and of equal importance; the generated code can be re-generated without clobbering any human written code.

But that isn't very .NET 2.0 now is it.  We can extend the concept of seperating the generated code from any human written parts by changing our template to generate partial classes:

Public Partial Class DatabaseAccess
    Inherits ConvienientBaseClass