Schedule that meeting to talk to your boss about a raise.  CodeSmith Tools will show you exactly how much it is saving your company.  Well almost.  If you pull up the About dialog form, it will show you lines it has generated and use its advanced calculation (Lines generated / Average lines of code per hour) * Average cost per hour.  As you can see from the screen shot I have saved my company almost $80K!  I don’t think it is too much to ask for just 10% of that J

While for new code generation it is more useful, it keeps adding the lines every time you re-generate the code.  So you could sit there and click on the “generate outputs” a few dozen times and easily add some zeros to the end of that number.

I am a huge believer in code generation.  My golden rule for code generation is to never edit generated code, so after you are done coding, you can reset the counter, re-generate, and then your number should be a good representation of what you generated and most importantly, your savings!   While you might not get a raise it does show some interesting numbers and its more evidence to show the benefits of code generation.

Code Smart Not Hard!

Mike