FYI, I'm presenting at the monthly meeting of the International Association of Software Architects Puget Sound chapter Wed night (4/27). I'll be talking about DSLs and Software Factories, including a hands-on look at the tool. If you're in the Redmond...

We had a good crowd for today's webcast - including my dad as it turns out. The session was on packaging design and architecture guidance for Visual Studio. In the session, Tom and Wojtek announced the newest p&p deliverable - the Guidance Automation...

Anyone who's played with the DSL toolkit knows that it's a 50/50 experience. Building the domain model means using a pretty straight forward designer (itself a DSL). Building a desinger means groveling around in a really ugly XML file. I hear that the...

Thanks to Pedro Silva , I now know about the DSL Tools forum on MSDN. There are also forums for VSTESA , MSF and VSTS Workshop . Plus, you can subscribe to RSS feeds of all these forums. Speaking of the VSTS Workshops, the 3rd workshop (after DSL Tools...

Last Thursday, I hosted the patterns & practices Live! webcast for Ron Jacobs . The session was on the Updater Application Block with Eugenio . I should have posted a link before hand - sorry about that. As soon as I find a link to the on-demand version...

Certainly not my father's C++. I sat thru a presenation on VC++ 2005 today. Wow, I hadn't realized all the coolness there. First off, all the syntax is working it's way thru the standards bodies, so no more underscore underscore syntax . It makes the...

I was in Barcelona all last week, so I'm behind on email and blogs. I missed a couple of great posts from various folks involved in modeling at Microsoft. Gareth blogged about the text template engine in the DSL toolkit. Ali Pasha blogged about the relationship...