December 2004 - Posts

Another domain model example

ChrisM has an example of using our Domain Model Designer on his blog and promises more with our new CTP download . Looking forward to it Chris. Read More...

Posted 21 December 04 07:42 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
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Another one of the team online

Jack Greenfield , an architect in the same group as myself and the other DSL guys has been seduced by the allure of blogging. He joins the debate with Grady Booch and looks forward to sharing more about our software factories vision . Read More...

Posted 21 December 04 07:33 by GarethJ | 2 Comments   
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December release of DSL Tools ships

You can now download the latest Community Technical Preview of our Domain Specific Language Tools for Visual Studio 2005 Beta1. With this release, you can create both a domain model and fully-fledged designer integrated into the IDE. The attendant documentation Read More...

Posted 20 December 04 10:18 by GarethJ | 2 Comments   
Filed under Modeling, Tech thrills

DSL Tools: Look and (soon) feel

We're really close now with our new release - with luck, you should be able to get your hands on it in the next few days. I know you're dying to spend your Christmas holiday vacation creating domain specific languages for Visual Studio. One feature that Read More...

Posted 16 December 04 10:16 by GarethJ | 3 Comments   
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When dragging is a big drag

Nicholas Allen wrote to me to comment on a piece of UI in our October CTP: I'm trying out putting an existing domain language into the editor and I'm having some frustration with creating nested concepts and inheritance to existing elements. I have to Read More...

Posted 15 December 04 10:39 by GarethJ | 9 Comments   

MSDN2 from your desktop

Simon Guest has a great post on how to use the new MSN toolbar to shortcut straight into the MSDN2 library documentation. I'm hooked. Read More...

Posted 15 December 04 10:11 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
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Heads up: Upcoming DSL Tools CTP - file format changes

We're working to get our next Community Technical Preview shipped as soon as ever possible now. I thought I'd give a heads up on some changes we've made and something you might want to do if you've put any data that you care about into the previous CTP. Read More...

Posted 15 December 04 05:50 by GarethJ | 0 Comments   
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Bug us

You can now submit bugs and suggestions about the DSL Tools to our team through the magic of the MSDN Product Feedback Center . You'll find us under the Visual Studio 2005 Team System product with a category of DSL Tools. We'd love to hear any feedback Read More...

Posted 10 December 04 06:57 by GarethJ | 0 Comments   
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The mysterious code generator in our October CTP

In our newsgroup , Bill asked what the deal was with the code generation that we expose via the context menus on the diagram. I thought I'd share my answer a bit more widely… The code generation that's in the current download is indicative of the type Read More...

Posted 08 December 04 10:03 by GarethJ | 5 Comments   

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