Model Citizen

In October 2007, Microsoft introduced “Oslo” as the codename for a set of technical investments to apply model-driven principles to building applications and services. Since that announcement, many of those investments have shipped in products...

For those who have been frequenting http://msdn.com/oslo , you'll find as of this morning that you'll end up now on http://msdn.com/data . That's because we've just finished merging the Data and "Oslo" Developer Centers (along with the XML DevCenter,...

One certainty about product teams at Microsoft is that they never stop working to improve and refine their technologies. This is true even through organizational rearrangements and little things like, you know, finding a ship vehicle and landing a few...

Many of you are surely asking when the next CTP for "Oslo" will be released, since we haven't had one since May and also because the May CTP has some incompatibilities with the recently-released Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4. With...

Data Programming and Modeling for the Microsoft .NET Developer , by Don Box and Chris Anderson. Watch the Modeling sessions page for more as they're posted. PDC home page is http://www.microsoftpdc.com .

By Michael Murray, Senior Program Manager (Edited November 17, 2009, to reflect the renaming of "Oslo" to SQL Server Modeling) Microsoft code name "Quadrant" is a ‘tool for viewing and editing SQL data,' but... so what? There are many tools for viewing...

by Oz Evren, Software Design Engineer for Microsoft code name "Oslo" One feature that is commonly requested for the “M” command-line utility, mx.exe, is being able to uninstall images. This is very useful when you’re developing a set of models and...

Since we released the May CTP of the code name "Oslo" technologies more than a month ago now, we've been continuing to add new content and make some additional changes to the Oslo DevCenter site itself. As often happens, you put these things out into...

This post is an edited transcript of the short video on http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Dan/C9-Bytes-Don-and-Chris-explain-Oslo-in-5-minutes/ . Even though the video is from October 2008 and slightly dated, it contains some helpful insights about the motivations...

by David Matson, Test Engineer for Microsoft code name "Oslo" The examples in this article work with the May 2009 CTP. Summary Using the M languages and types features together can be tricky for the uninitiated. I've collected some of the most...

A few people have asked "where are the samples"? As you can see from the Release Notes , they are no longer distributed with the "Oslo" download itself. So, " where are the samples " you ask? Well, you can now see the list on the Download page, but for...

Hello once again from Kraig, Kent, and Chris, your editors on the "Oslo" Developer Center . We're delighted to announce the release of the "Oslo" May 2009 CTP . The product team has been busy stomping on bugs and adding features for this release--there...

Have you ever wondered, after a session of experimenting and playing with the M tools and the Repository, if there was a simple and reliable way to get your Repository back to its original state? A clean slate, of sorts, without the need to reinstall...

With any new language - whether it be a programming language or communication language – it’s always best to refer to a standard to decide if you’re using it correctly. We know that our spelling is correct by checking an authority (even if it’s only Word...