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...

Introduction In the Visual Studio 2010 DSL SDK Beta1, we added a few UI enhancements to the graphical designers. This post and the following aim at starting presenting them. I’ll update the links in this post to the following posts as I write them, The...

Pablo Galiano , from Clarius, has produced some nice content explaining the Visual Studio 10 extensibility, which is based on the notion of VSIX, and also uses a lot MEF.   He gives some links MEF, and presents the Microsoft.VisualStudio.ComponentModelHost...