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"Oslo" Web Links

benmartens — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:26:16 GMT

Microsoft "Oslo" Resources

"Oslo" Developer Center
Download the "Oslo" SDK
Ask a Question About "Oslo"
Report an Oslo Bug
A Lap Around "Oslo" (PDC video)
"Oslo" - The Language (PDC video)
"Oslo": Customizing and Extending the Visual Design Experience (PDC video)
Building Textual DSLs with the "Oslo" Modeling Language (PDC video)
"Oslo": Repository & Models (PDC video)

The World's Take on "Oslo"

Oslo, Martin Fowler
Oslo modeling platform: my first impressions...
Oslo: Remodeling Windows!!!
Microsoft Azure May Be Too Good To Ignore, James Urquhart
First Look at Microsoft "Oslo", Arman Kurtagic
Best PDC session so far : Lap around "Oslo", Dennis van der Stelt
"M" and MService, Dennis van der Stelt
"Oslo" repositories and models, Dennis van der Stelt
"Oslo": Customizing and Extending the Visual Design Experience, Dennis van der Stelt
Oslo : Building textual DSLs, Dennis van der Stelt
First Impressions of Oslo, Shawn Wildermuth
What is "Oslo"? Dennis Doomen
A Quick Waddle Around Oslo, David Ing
IntelliPad (IPad): adding commands, Jon Flanders
Oslo highlight: MGrammar, Armin Sander
First in-depth look at Microsoft’s Oslo and the “M” modeling language, William Vambenepe
Sneak Peak at M, Stephen Forte
"Oslo" Modeling Language Specification, Codename "M" (video)
Inside "M" with the "Oslo" Team (video)
Design and Lineage of the "Oslo" Modeling Language, Codename "M" (video)
Getting Started with "M," the "Oslo" Modeling Language (video)
"Oslo" Modeling SDK: "M Grammar" -- What is it? (video)
Getting Started with "M Grammar" (video)
"Oslo" -- Microsoft's Modeling Platform (video)
The "Oslo" Modeling Language: "M Grammar" with Paul Vick (video)
First Look at Quadrant – Oslo's Modeling Tool (video)
First Look at M – Oslo's Modeling Language (video)
Oslo Roundup, Mike Walker
Exploring Oslo's modeling language promises, Esther Schindler
Microsoft Makes Its Way to Oslo (video), Joe Wilcox
Microsoft's Ray Ozzie Talks Open Source, Azure and More, Darryl K. Taft
Microsoft adds 'M' to Open Specification Promise, David Worthington
Microsoft Delivers Oslo Components, Darryl K. Taft

Models Remixed

benmartens — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:46:19 GMT

From www.modelsremixed.com...

Microsoft "Oslo" Web Page

benmartens — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:42:53 GMT

Now that PDC is in full swing, the Oslo Developer Center has been published. It contains a lot of great information about the whole Oslo platform - the Repository, the M modeling language, and Quadrant. Quadrant is the specific piece that I work on so I've spent most of my time reading through the info they posted about it. Unfortunately there are no Quadrant bits for you to download, but there is a lot of good information.

The tools component within "Oslo" creates a layer where the multiple roles (analyst, architect, developer, IT Manager, etc) within an organization can visually share and collaborate on models, using the specific view of the model suited to their needs. Models can be edited either using the new modeling tools, or can be exposed through the existing familiar tools that the end-user already knows (e.g. Visual Studio, BizTalk, SharePoint, Visio, etc).

Oslo Elevator Pitch

benmartens — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:15:21 GMT

One of the big challenges for me has always been coming up with a short and sweet elevator pitch for our offering, but recently Don Box and Doug Purdy have done just that on their respective blogs.

http://www.pluralsight.com/community/blogs/dbox/archive/2008/09/06/oslo.aspx

http://douglaspurdy.com/2008/09/06/what-is-oslo/

Life is getting exciting around here as we prepare to show the world what we've been working on for the very first time at PDC. Dev, test and PM have been working hard on the bits and the management team has been pouring over the presentations and marketing plan to make sure present the best possible picture of our product. Soon everyone will get a chance to peak behind the door!

Oslo at PDC 2008

benmartens — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:02:07 GMT

Are you going to PDC this year? Be sure to stop by some of the Connected Systems Division talks to hear about the project I work on. There are plenty of people more qualified than me to give the talks, and that's just fine with me. I'll be hard at work back here in Redmond making sure you have a great experience. We're all very excited to show you what we've been working on!

"Oslo:" Managing Software + Services Applications
Presenter: Oliver Sharp
Hosting Workflows and Services in "Oslo"
Presenter: Ford McKinstry
"Oslo:" Customizing and Extending the Visual Design Experience
Presenter: Florian Voss
A Lap around "Oslo"
Presenter(s): Chris Anderson, Don Box
"Oslo:" The Language
Presenter(s): Don Box, David Langworthy
"Oslo:" Repository and Schemas
Presenter(s): Martin Gudgin, Chris Sells
Extending Windows Workflow Foundation v.Next with Custom Activities
Presenter: Matt Winkler
Workflow Services
Presenter: Ed Pinto
Windows Workflow Foundation: Futures
Presenter: Kenny Wolf

[List copied from Chris Sells's blog.]

Positive Press for CPAO

benmartens — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:10:10 GMT

The Calendar Printing Assistant for Office reviews are starting to hit the press.

"In short, printing remains one of Outlook's weaker areas, but perhaps Microsoft's development of the Calendar Printing Assistant heralds a new awareness of the existing deficiencies. I'm sure many users and organizations would like to see task, contact, and message printing assistants as well."

http://www.windowsitpro.com/articles/index.cfm?articleid=94038&feed=ArticleLink&promocode=rtartpage

Tony Williams on Channel9

benmartens — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:29:00 GMT

I started with the Connected Applications Framework group about 3 months ago. Since then I've had the opportunity to work with a number of fantastic employees such as Don Box, Clemens Szyperski, and Tony Williams. Tony is our Platform Architect and was recently featured on Channel9. At minute 44 he gives a brief definition of our group and talks about CPAO.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=224935

From the video:
We started a group it was called ComApps. We were proposing to basically build a component framework rather than a .NET style framwork so that we could build a product line of new applictions. We thought of it as an advanced development activity but there was a substantive research element to it. So we spent some years working on that, working on components and composition - once you've got your components, how do you put them together to make an appliction? It culminated in some demos to Bill on how you can build a real fairly rich user interface in that scenario. ... We had demoed our framework to Bill and basically said "So how, if at all, do we move this forward?" He asked us to sort of hang on for a month or two while he figured out what to do here. Meanwhile, Charles Simone had been taking some ideas from his Intentional Programming team an touting them around to people saying, "Let's apply these ideas, not to code, which is what IP was about, but to data." Because XML was all the rage. XML is tree structured. Charles's IP was all about transformations on trees. My team's work was about declarative construction of applications and Bill says, "So if I want applications that process trees, because the world is all going XML, can't I take that and that and put them together?" So he asked us to merge and investigate what we could do. ... We did deliver on that. We are delivering a smallish application in Office 12 that is built that way.

CPAO

benmartens — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:24:00 GMT

The Calendar Printing Assistant for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 is the first external product to come out of my group. There are some nice writeups finally hitting the web:

http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2006/08/15/701836.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/community/article_calendar_krieger.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/programs/outlook/cpa.mspx