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• 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, Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 13, 2005 11:48 AM by Alan Cameron Wills | 1 Comments Filed under: DSL Tools

• 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 Read More... Posted Thursday, November 03, 2005 6:11 AM by Alan Cameron Wills | 3 Comments Filed under: DSL Tools

• 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 Read More... Posted Monday, October 31, 2005 4:54 AM by Alan Cameron Wills | 1 Comments Filed under: DSL Tools

• 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 Read More... Posted Thursday, October 27, 2005 3:45 AM by Alan Cameron Wills | 0 Comments Filed under: DSL Tools

• 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 Read More... Posted Saturday, October 22, 2005 2:58 AM by Alan Cameron Wills | 0 Comments Filed under: DSL Tools

• 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 Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 04, 2005 4:40 PM by Alan Cameron Wills | 3 Comments Filed under: All Categories, DSL Tools

• 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 Read More... Posted Monday, April 25, 2005 5:45 AM by Alan Cameron Wills | 3 Comments Filed under: All Categories, DSL Tools

• The Joy of DSLs

  Nice post from David Ing: http://www.from9till2.com/PermaLink.aspx?guid=6011a529-8914-4160-8f2f-0ce7b988310c Read More... Posted Monday, April 25, 2005 5:09 AM by Alan Cameron Wills | 0 Comments Filed under: All Categories, DSL Tools

• 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 Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 13, 2004 7:27 PM by Alan Cameron Wills | 1 Comments Filed under: DSL Tools