June 2006 - Posts

Sad news - Bill to leave after two years

Yes, it's true. The BBC confirmed yesterday that Billie Piper is to leave Dr Who at the end of a two year run playing assistant Rose Tyler. The good Doctor just won't be the same without those toothy grins accompanying him. Sorry, was there any other Read More...

Posted 16 June 06 02:27 by GarethJ | 4 Comments   
Filed under The real world

VS 2005 Xml Editor Coolness

Kzu has a top tip for the Xml Editor in Visual Studio 2005 . F12 for “Go to definition” works in instance documents and on elements in schema just as if it was C# code. Nice. BTW, this entry my first posted directly from Word 2007 – we’ll see how that Read More...

Posted 12 June 06 03:48 by GarethJ | 0 Comments   
Filed under Tech thrills

Monkey Business

Martijn, asks on his delightfully-named Software Chimps site: I wonder therefore why Microsoft has taken the Factory Factory Factory Factory approach in making its own Factory. He notes that we're only building one product and therefore wonders if we're Read More...

Posted 08 June 06 03:26 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
Filed under Modeling, Enterprise Development, DSL Tools

Caching in latest T4 drop

Adam Miller has been using our T4 engine and has a question about caching... A caching question: Using the standard templating engine (Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextTemplating.Engine), is there a way to cache the same template file between generations? Specifically, Read More...

Posted 05 June 06 03:37 by GarethJ | 7 Comments   
Filed under Modeling, DSL Tools, T4

June 2006 CTP of DSL Tools ships

I'm on a short post-ship vacation at the moment so just a quick note. As Stuart announced , we've shipped our next CTP of the DSL Tools with the Visual Studio 2005 SDK V3 June 2006 CTP. More when I get back to work, but read the info on converting your Read More...

Posted 02 June 06 11:31 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
Filed under Modeling, Tech thrills, DSL Tools

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