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...

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...

We just published a new sample demonstrating how to extend a DSL after it has shipped. The sample presents a DSL to explain the architecture of a multi-Tiered application. Each tier is made of components, which have ports. Connections are made between...

Today we made a new Beta1 sample available on the Code Gallery ( http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/DslTools ). This sample, named ImsLocks, explains how a DSL author can prevent the DSL user from editing partially or completely his designer. This can be...

I’m excited to announce you that we just posted a first DSL SDK 2010 Beta1 sample available from http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/DslTools . This sample demonstrates the use of the ModelBus. the source code is available here StateMachineOverModelBus.zip...

After the Visual Studio 2010 SDK announcement yesterday, it’s my turn to be excited to announce the availability, today, of the Visual Studio 2010 DSL SDK Beta1 !   A separate download? Why? Visual Studio 2010 ships with the DSL Tools and T4 runtime...

Until now, I have been using Clarius’s T4 editor . However, Oleg recently wrote a post where he presents an overview of a new T4 editor he has been using: Tangible engineering’s T4 editor . I did not have time to download it, busy as we are preparing...

Last week, Andre Furtado announced the v0.2 release of SharpLudus. In a few minutes you describe game screens with their background, music and and transitions through a DSL, and the corresponding XNA code is generated. Andre even presents a video of how...

I’m very excited to announce you that Pascal Recchia and Anthony Guerot (2 French MVPs) recently published an article where they explain how to create multiple views for a DSL. This is an authoring feature that many customers have been requesting for...

We just posted a one-day Lab on the DSL Tools on the Code Gallery : http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/DslToolsLab The idea is that, if you complete this Lab until the end, you'll be able to create your own modeling graphical designers using the DSL Tools...

I am at TechEd Europe in Barcelona. As Stuart explained in DSL Tools in Visual Studio 2010 , we have many improvements to the DSL Tools in Visual Studio 2010. If you are interested in the subject, and want to talk about that, come an see me : I'll be...

As one of our customers remembered , we had announced a better support of nested shapes in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 / VSSDK 1.1. But it turns out that on the list of improvement we shipped with VSSDK 1.1, we only talked about the print preview, and not...

Presentation of the problem: Deleting behaviour with compartments representing embeddings Most of the time, in the DSL Tools, you map compartments in compartment shapes to embedding relationships. And then, deleting a compartment item in the compartment...

As you might know, James and I are currently doing a VSX Tour in Europe. James already provided information in his blog about the different steps, in Brussels , Amsterdam , and Munich . For the ones who would be interested in the event in Belgium: Katrien...

I'm currently visiting the VSX team in Redmond, introducing myself and meeting everybody. I'll be there for two weeks. I arrived yesterday afternoon after a 23 hours trip from France, and Ken Levy invited me to a party at Ted Neward 's house, along with...

As I told you in my previous post, the DslFactory community created a lot of content about DslTools and more generally Visual Studio Extensibility. This content is freely available, although written in French. Most of it is very interesting: For instance...

I started a few days ago in the Visual Studio Ecosystem team. During my last 19 years I worked in the French Ministry of Defence building operational analysis software, and simulation applications to make decisions. A few years ago, I started creating...