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Tuesday, December 13, 2005 11:48 AM

End-to-end DSL samples available

We've just published an updated set of samples for the DSL Tools. As well as updates to the previous examples, which show how to customize your DSL, there's now a complete small end-to-end showing how a DSL can be used to generate the code of a project,
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Thursday, November 03, 2005 6:11 AM

partial classes

We use partial classes a lot in the DSL Tools . We need them to help compose code that's generated from different places, and generated with handwritten code. If you're not familiar with it, a partial class definition is just a set of methods, properties
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Monday, October 31, 2005 4:54 AM

Constraints and Restrictions in MS DSL Tools

I do get irritated by over-officious tools. "You can't use that name, you've used it already over there." Well, I know, but I'm going to change that in a moment, and it'll be alright in the end, really. In the DSL Tools Customization Samples & Guide
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Thursday, October 27, 2005 3:45 AM

Rules in the DSL Tools

In the DSL Tools Customization Samples & Guide there's some examples that use MDF rules to spot a change and react to it. (1) In the class diagram sample, attributes are displayed as a string like "aName : SomeType", and in the properties grid, the
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Saturday, October 22, 2005 2:58 AM

Customizing the MS Domain Specific Language Tools

One of the features of the DSL Tools is extensibility. With the language definition files, you can define a wide range of thing-and-link style graphical notations. The current version of the Tools comes with a set of templates for creating class, use
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Wednesday, May 04, 2005 4:40 PM

Composing DSLs in our tools

Susan says : 1. Composing languages: a DSL can also be categorized based on whether it an encapsulated DSL that represents an application domain (e.g. finance, medical, etc) or an aspectual DSL that represents a concern that cuts across the application
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Monday, April 25, 2005 5:45 AM

Model Taxonomy

At the excellent SPA conference ( www.spa2005.org ) John Daniels led a workshop session " A Taxonomy of Models". Defining “model” as including any kind of language, he made a table of how models are used; or rather, he wrote the outer headings and we
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Monday, April 25, 2005 5:09 AM

The Joy of DSLs

Nice post from David Ing: http://www.from9till2.com/PermaLink.aspx?guid=6011a529-8914-4160-8f2f-0ce7b988310c
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Tuesday, April 13, 2004 7:27 PM

Domain Specific Languages

At OT2004 , I ran a workshop on domain specific languages. OT is where the UK experts in software development gather each year, and so the people attending a workshop generally know more than whoever is running it. It's a great way to get some good ideas
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