February 2008 - Posts

Is your job so bad?

From Jim Glass... A CRM Riff : 5 Reasons to Quit Complaining About Your Job The first one gives me vertigo just sitting here. Technorati Tags: Job Humor Read More...

Posted 27 February 08 08:10 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
Filed under The real world, Fun

Visual Studio Gallery is Live

Soma has just announced that our new Gallery for all kinds of VS eXtensions is live. Major props to Anthony Cangialosi , as he's been been the driving force behind making this happen. You can find Anthony discussing the Gallery with Ken Levy on video Read More...

Posted 27 February 08 08:05 by GarethJ | 3 Comments   
Filed under Modeling, DSL Tools, VSX, Community

New DSL Tools Videos Online

I've just noticed that at the top of the Visual Studio Start Page RSS feed today are two groovy videos on DSL Tools - one on basics and one on more advanced customizations. And a really fun domain chosen - modeling the solar system! How Do I: Create and Read More...

Posted 23 February 08 02:05 by GarethJ | 3 Comments   
Filed under Modeling, DSL Tools, VSX

XNA Studio and DSL Tools - Better Together

I've been meaning to blog this for an age. Over in Furtaspace (love that name), André points out that with the (relatively) recent release of XNA Studio 2.0, you can now use teh 2005 version of VDSL Tools to create model-driven game creation tooling. Read More...

Posted 20 February 08 02:49 by GarethJ | 4 Comments   
Filed under Modeling, Tech thrills, DSL Tools, VSX

Web Service Software Factory Modeling Edition Customization via Avanade

Gerardo de Geest and Gerben van Loon of Avanade have a great new MSDN article ... Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition, also known as the Service Factory, is a collection of resources to help you model and build Web services for Windows ® Communication Read More...

Posted 20 February 08 01:53 by GarethJ | 0 Comments   
Filed under Modeling, Enterprise Development, DSL Tools, Built with DSL Tools, VSX

Underexplored VSX Nuggets Vol #37: How a DSL Diagram is rendered

This is an area I always have to remind myself of every time someone asks a question, so I thought I'd better write it up. Essentially there are four layers involved: Starting in the middle and working outwards, the classes' responsibilities are as follows: Read More...

Posted 13 February 08 06:13 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
Filed under Modeling, Code samples, DSL Tools, VSX

More general-purpose T4 goodness

Oleg saw my post about Kiril's general-purpose use of T4 and gently pointed me at the set of resources he has put up in the same area. It's really great to see folks exploiting the richness we've added by putting T4 into every copy of Visual Studio 2008. Read More...

Posted 04 February 08 06:12 by GarethJ | 5 Comments   
Filed under Tech thrills, Enterprise Development, VSX, T4

Inovak learns VSX - Now!

Over in Hungary, one of our C# MVPs, Inovak has started a extremely nice series of mini-articles on getting started with VSX that he calls LearnVSXNow! I'll be fascinated to watch this develop. Technorati Tags: VSX Community , Visual Studio Read More...

Posted 01 February 08 03:43 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
Filed under VSX, Community

Wojtek at Wicsa

My esteemed colleague, Wojtek Kozaczynski , will be giving a tutorial on "Representing Application Architectures in Software Factories" at Wicsa 2008 , 18-22 Feb This tutorial will explain the concept of packaging software development guidance and assets, Read More...

Posted 01 February 08 11:48 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
Filed under Modeling, The real world, Enterprise Development, VSX

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