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We've just released a powertoy for the DSL tools that provides some basic functionality for integrating multiple DSLs. You can downloaded it from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bfba74af-4f28-44cc-8de5-0c3c55d21863&displaylang...

Well, maybe not exactly hidden, but certainly not well-known. Tucked away in the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Modeling.sdk assembly in the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Modeling.Diagnostics namespace you'll find a little class called StoreViewer that can visualize...

Amazon has now got a listing for our upcoming book: Domain Specific Development With Visual Studio DSL Tools http://www.amazon.com/Domain-Specific-Development-Visual-Microsoft/dp/0321398203/ Finally something on the web that I can point my family at that...

As Steve pointed out , here's another product based on DSL Tools technology. From the Tangible web page : " Model-Driven Code Generation featuring Drag&Drop UI-Design (Software factory supporting DSL & UML) 1. Define your business objects using...

The Microsoft Japan architect team has published three DSL Tools whitepapers which you can find here: http://www.microsoft.com/japan/msdn/architecture/dsl/default.aspx Thanks to Shozo Arai for pointing them out to me.

There is a vibrant French language DSL Tools community over at http://dslfactory.org/CommunityServer/web/ It includes code snippets, a T4 colorizer and a six-part lab on DSL Tools. Very nice.

As Soma announces , service pack 1 for Visual Studio 2005 with a lot of bug fixes and integrated WAP support is released . Closer to home, James announced the December CTP of the Visual Studio SDK 4.0 released last week. This release contains a bunch...

Martijn over at Software Chimps has a good post on DSL(/M) :-) templates and why they aren't a good idea. One of his key points is: "Providing them with a ready-made language template would: Get them started on the wrong path: They would not think carefully...

Another neat application of DSL tools V1 (with a custom VS SDK project system to boot) in the GUI-building (they coined the term 'guilding' which I like) space for service oriented apps. It's really exciting to see DSL Tools as a technology that's helping...

Larry O'Brien is struggling to find his way in to our toolset and he's not finding our docs very helpful to him. He makes a point that brought me up sharp: "Microsoft's approach emphasizes the use of a Visio-like design surface to create some form of...

I just came across another product based on the DSL Tools. It's called ActiveWriter and it's an entity designer for classes that are persisted using the ActiveRecord pattern on top of nHibernate .

By default, DSL Tools V1 uses domain properties of type "string" as names for its elements. If you try to use a property of some other type, for example Int32, you'll get the following validation message: "Error 1 Domain Property Name is marked IsName...

Seems we let a side-by-side upgrade case slip by in our V1 release process; so you can end up with an old version of text templating on your machine if you upgraded from June, July or August CTPs to the September release. For more details and the fix...

We've Shipped! The VS2005 SDK V3 containing DSL Tools V1, can be downloaded from http://affiliate.vsipmembers.com/affiliate/downloadfiles.aspx . The DSLTools homepage will be updated to match shortly. Personally, this marks the culmination of the three...

It's probably a bit quiet round here, on blogs and on our forum as we're all very heads down finishing up V1.  We're trying not to go completely dark, but its fair to say we're all a bit preoccupied in the final straight now. (And then we might all be...

Just a quick update. The formal job descriptions for the positions we have open in Cambridge are now up on the www.Microsoft.com/uk/jobs site: http://members.microsoft.com/careers/international/default.asp?lang=EN&loc=UKD&job=90302475&jobslist...

It's time to build out our dev team in Cambridge to help bring together assets like DSL Tools and GAT into a Software Factories platform, so we're hiring.   If you’re passionate about this stuff and you're an outstanding .Net developer, drop me a...

Martijn, asks on his delightfully-named Software Chimps site: I wonder therefore why Microsoft has taken the Factory Factory Factory Factory approach in making its own Factory. He notes that we're only building one product and therefore wonders...

Adam Miller has been using our T4 engine and has a question about caching... A caching question: Using the standard templating engine (Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextTemplating.Engine), is there a way to cache the same template file between generations...

I'm on a short post-ship vacation at the moment so just a quick note. As Stuart announced , we've shipped our next CTP of the DSL Tools with the Visual Studio 2005 SDK V3 June 2006 CTP.   More when I get back to work, but read the info on converting...

I said in a recent post that I didn't believe in 100% code generation in the near future.   The recent discussion about the worth/necessity of some volume of custom code to do clever IDE integration of a DSL got me thinking harder about whether I...

In his response to my last post , Steven said   "Microsoft's focus on IDE integration seems to be leading many of its customers astray. They're jumping straight in to building tight integration with Visual Studio, before they've even had their modeling...

It's been an age since I blogged.  As has been noted , we've slipped a bit and this might have something to do with it :-)   Since I last posted, Pedro has been confirmed as our new and glorious leader .  This is a fabulous thing for the team and...

As well as the original T4 colourizer posted by Modelisense , there's now a new kid on the block from Gaston Milano  (as noted by Pedro ).

I enjoy my occasional jousts with Steven Kelly from one of our competitors , so I had to respond to his latest missive .   Steven has posted a screencap of a long thread on our forum (how did you make that image BTW Steven?) and goes on to talk about...