Joeul asks an interesting question in his forum post . reference relationships' names are not normally unique across the whole model, but only to the 2 elements they link. How to change this behavior? Here is how to do to get unique name for reference...

If you don’t know it already, you’ll be pleased to learn that Alan has posted yesterday a news on the VsVmSdk forum about the documentation improvements for the DSL Tools. New improved documents and sample available

Summary There is a bug in the ProvideCodeGeneratorAttribute, which breaks VSIX deployment because it generates absolute codebase in .pkgdef instead of Codebase relative to $PackageFolder$. This bug can be worked-around by not using the ProvideCodeGeneratorAttribute...

One month ago, I described an extension to the DslDesigner to author modelbus. This is a real life example of what could be a MEF extension to our authoring tool. Writing such an extension is easy as shown in the “ How to: extend the Domain-Specific Language...

Pascal and Anthony from the NetFxFactory community have just published another great article presenting a WPF based diagram that they ported to VS2010 using the new WPF (and Windows-Forms) form-based features present in the DSL Tools. And, since, “ it...

After my attention was drawn by a question on the forum ( StateKind Enumeration ), I discovered a bug in the DslDesignerExtensionForModelBus sample. Apparently there is no relationship between a problem on the DSL Tools Lab, and the DslDesignerExtensionForModelBus...

The problem If you build a DSL and deploy it on a different machine by double-clicking on a VSIX, everything should be fine, except that you will get warnings "Cannot find a schema..." each time you open an instance of your DSL. This is because...

Gareth posted a list of new features for T4 in Visual Studio 2010: http://blogs.msdn.com/garethj/archive/2010/04/15/what-s-new-in-t4-in-visual-studio-2010.aspx

Alan just published an update of the Visual Studio Visualization and Modeling SDK Lab (DSL Tools Lab) for Visual Studio 2010. It is available from http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/DSLToolsLab . Enjoy!

Along with our RTM version of the Visual Studio Visualization and Modeling SDK, we have posted a new sample on the Code Gallery site :  DslDesigner extension for Modelbus authoring How to build the modelbus tool? Download the DslDesigner extension...

Unfolding a new Dsl In the RTM release of the Visualization and Modeling SDK, when we unfold a new designer, it really no time, and this is because you no longer need to wait for the text templates to be transformed. If you look in the GeneratedCode folders...

We just released the RTM version of the Visual Studio Visualization and Modeling SDK (VsVm SDK), which is the successor for the DSL Tools.   You can: download it from the download page . View the MSDN documentation in the MSDN library. There is one...

In the VSSDK for Visual Studio 2008, (as well as in the DSL SDK for VS2010 Beta1) the DslDefinition.dll and the DslDesigner.dll were GAC-ed, and the included templates were located in %Program Files%\Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SDK\VisualStudioIntegration...

Context information about the problem The VSSDK msbuild targets changed between Beta2 and RC so that the <RegisterWithCodebase> msbuild property must be defined before the VSSDK targets are imported, or otherwise, the .pkgdef that is created does...

I make a short break during my vacations to announce you that the DSL SDK is now part of the Visual Studio Visualization and Modeling SDK . The Visual Studio Visualization and Modeling SDK (in short VsVmSdk ) contains both the DSL Tools SDK, (what we...

What are Domain Model Libraries One of the new features in VS2010 is the notion of Domain Model Libraries . This is the equivalent for dslDefinition files, to the class libraries for assemblies. You can have, in a Domain Model Library types, (external...

There is already a post on the forum, about that, but I feel that I need to communicate a bit more.   What is the problem? You downloaded and installed the brand new VS2010 Beta2, installed the VSSDK, and the DSL SDK You unfold a new Dsl, let’s say...

I’m a bit late to announce it, but only now do I find the time to blog: this morning, we released the DSL SDK for Visual Studio Beta2. It is available from Visual Studio 2010 DSL SDK Beta2 , and, as for the Beta1, you’ll need to install the Visual Studio...

Among other things, I’m preparing my talk to the Development Tools Ecosystem Summit in Redmond October 19-23, and it’s the time, after the hard work we’ve been doing on producing the Beta2 of Visual Studio, to come back to you, customers and partners...

Pascal Recchia and Anthony Guérot from Mexedge just published a new article: " Provide an improved user experience to your DSL's " about how to use WPF with your DSLs even in Visual Studio 2008. The technology they use is similar to what we...

I was going to blog a bit about pre-processed T4 templates, that Gareth already explained a few months ago ( rationale and basic design ), when my attention was drown on Pablo’s posts about the subject: VS10 Beta 1 / T4 Preprocessing part 1 explains why...

Behavior in previous versions of the DSL Tools In previous versions of the DSL Tools, the copy/cut/paste of model elements did not work very well. There were limitations, and even bugs that prevented very elaborate scenarios. In case you are interested...

Behavior in previous versions of the DSL Tools In previous versions of the DslTools, when you wanted to export a selection to an image, or to the Clipboard, you had to write some custom code, or just take a screen copy of what you wanted.   New Behavior...

Behavior in previous versions of the DSL Tools In previous versions of the DSL Tools, such as, in the DSL Class diagram which is provided as a sample, you could very easily end-up with a very cluttered diagram: New behavior With the moveable decorators...

Behavior in previous versions of the DSL Tools In previous versions of the DSL Tools, each time you wanted to create a shape or a connector, you had to: go to the toolbox, and click on the domain shape / connector that you wanted to create Come to the...