For ABP vNext, see the new AbpHelper.

ABPHelper

ABPHelper is a Visual Studio Extension(VSIX) that helps you with developing ASP.NET Boilerplate applications.

Installation

You can install ABPHelper by using Extensions and Updates in Visual Studio. Or download it from Visual Studio Gallery and install it manually.

Using

Once you installed ABPHelper, you can find it in Views->Other Windows->ABPHelper.

Features:

• Generate Business

  In development using ABP, we usually need to create a group of related files:

  Application project

  • IXXXAppService.cs, XXXAppservice.cs
  • Dto folder

  Web project

  • index.cshtml
  • index.js
  • other popups...

  I call this group of files "A business". Creating these files is trival and error-prone (maybe you forget to implement the ApplicationServiceBase, or you misspell the controller name).

  Use Generate Business to help you:

  

  • Input the business name, like Product, other info will be auto-genereated. You can also change them manually.
  • For folder fields, multi levels are supported.(like TopFolder\SubFolder\Products)
  • In View Files, you can add a row by inputing in the bottom row of the grid; you can remove a row by pressing the DELETE key.
  • then click Generate button(The first time generation maybe slow).

  NOTE AbpHelper will skip generating exist files/folders.

• Generate ApplicationService Methods

  Open an ApplicationService source code, then input methods names you want to generate in Method Names textbox(one name per line), check Async Methods if you wish.

  

  Then click Generate button, ABPHelper will do following things:

  • All methods will be generated in current ApplicationService class file.
  • All methods will be generated in corresponding Interface file.
  • All DTO files will be created and added to Dto folder of current project.