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WPF, DSL in Visual Studio 2008

Although data-binding to WPF is a feature of DSL Tools in Visual Studio 2010, that hasn’t stopped our vibrant community from hacking away to get results today with VS2008. Have a look at this selection of posts: Using WPF As The Designer Surface In DSL Read More...

Posted 24 September 09 03:07 by GarethJ | 0 Comments   
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Nice step-by-step on adding a menu to DSL Tools 2008

Sebastian Talamoni has a nice guide to adding a menu using a vsct file. Technorati Tags: DSL Tools , VSX Read More...

Posted 11 November 08 09:12 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
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New DSL Tools lab

Jean-Marc has just released a complete walkthrough of DSL Tools for Visual Studio 2008 aimed at DSL beginners as a lab on CodeGallery. Here you can see the language from the lab designing mouse gestures for manipulating primitives in a simple graphics Read More...

Posted 11 November 08 08:51 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
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DSL Book samples updated for Visual Studio 2008

It's taken us a little while, but the code samples for our book, Domain-Specific Development with Visual Studio DSL Tools, are now updated for Visual Studio 2008. You can download them from www.domainspecificdevelopment.com . Woo Hoo. Enjoy. Technorati Read More...

Posted 23 July 08 12:25 by GarethJ | 2 Comments   
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Tidbit for squeaking customization of DSL Add... menu items

I've answered this a couple of times internally, so I thought I'd better post it. The Add... menus in DSL Designers are dynamically generated from the ElementMergeDirective data you supply as part of your model. For example, if you say that a domain class Read More...

Posted 19 March 08 07:58 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
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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   
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Transforming DSL Setup T4 templates from the command line

With DSL Tools, we supply a tool called TextTransform.exe to run the T4 text templating engine from the command line. This is useful for creating batch builds or bulk transformation scripts. However, it needs a lot of parameters to get it to run, because Read More...

Posted 14 August 07 08:54 by GarethJ | 2 Comments   
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How to take charge of DSL Tools swimlane ordering

In a question on our forum , Michael Ruck asks: I have the following situation: A neural network consists of multiple layers (modelled using swimlanes.) There are three types of layers: Input, Hidden and Output layers. I'm basically done with the modelling, Read More...

Posted 22 February 07 08:05 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
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Using a non-string property as an element name

By default, DSL Tools V1 uses domain properties of type "string" as names for its elements. If you try to use a property of some other type, for example Int32, you'll get the following validation message: "Error 1 Domain Property Name is marked IsName, Read More...

Posted 29 September 06 07:12 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
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New samples posted for Domain Specific Languages Tools September CTP

Alan has just posted a whole bunch of code customization samples to work against the September CTP of the DSL Tools. These give you a flavour of a few things we'd expect our API to enable (although the API itself will change plenty before we ship V1). Read More...

Posted 19 October 05 03:30 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
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Breaking changes to T4 Text Templating in the September DSL Tools CTP

We've made a couple of breaking changes to the interfaces exposed by our text templating engine in this CTP in the area of directive processors. These won't affect regular DSL Tools users, as after going through the May-September migration process your Read More...

Posted 20 September 05 05:19 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
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Coopetition

Both my colleague Alan Cameron Wills and Steven Kelly from our esteemed competitor MetaCase have announced a joint workshop at the XP2005 conference in the UK. It's pretty nice to be able to work together to discuss and promote the parts of our respective visions that we share. Read More...

Posted 24 May 05 03:24 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
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