This chapter discusses the Watch Example C# generator, the integration with Microsoft Visual Studio using an additional extension plug-in, and how to generate code for Windows Phone 7 applications.

If you have been trying out the Watch example on Windows, you are already familiar with the C# code generation – that’s the default one for all Windows versions and the generated C# code compiles and executes out-of-the-box without needing to install any additional components. For a more fully-fledged development solution it is also possible to integrate MetaEdit+ with Microsoft Visual Studio. The simplest form of integration is to load the generated code into Visual Studio, compile it there and use Visual Studio’s facilities to run and debug it. This kind of workflow works even with the cut-down Visual Studio Express. We do, however, recommend Visual Studio users to use the additional extension plug-in for Visual Studio, to take full advantage of the integration with MetaEdit+ by enabling users to access the MetaEdit+ models and code generators directly from the IDE. The installation and usage of the extension requires Visual Studio Professional, and is explained in Section 4.2.