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DSL Tools 2010 Beta1 Launches!
Jean-Marc announced today that the latest new beta version of DSL Tools launched today hot on the heels of the recent Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 SDK beta releases. The team is really proud of all the great features we're shipping in this Read More...
Software Factories Redux
Don has a great post on where the p&p team are going with Software Factories and GAT/GAX . No doubt we'll be talking to those good folks about how they can take advantage of new features in DSL 2010 in their 2010 versions of Factories. Technorati Read More...
TellMe Voice Studio Beta1
I just noticed that the good folks over at TellMe (a relatively new bit of Microsoft) have shipped a beta of their Voice Studio voice application dev tool, based on DSL Tools. Very cool indeed! (I seem to be saying this a lot lately) I love the process Read More...
T4 Interview in Redmond Developer News
A couple of months ago, John K. Waters of Redmond Developer News was kind enough to interview Rob Conery and I about T4 and code generation in general. You can find the results here . Technorati Tags: T4 , Code Generaton , Text Templating , Visual Studi Read More...
DSL 2010 Feature Dives: T4 Preprocessing - Part Two - Basic Design
Lat time we looked at the "WHy" of T4 preprocessing - now let's look at an overview of the how. To explain the new features, it's helpful to have a look at the current way data flows through T4 2008. Let's suppose you have a trivial template generating Read More...
DSL 2010 Feature Dives: T4 Preprocessing - Part One - Rationale
Strictly, this isn't a DSL 2010 feature, but a general Visual Studio 2010 feature; T4 is only coupled organizationally to DSL Tools, not technically, but it fits into our current announcements, so I won't worry about that too much. Over the last year Read More...
informIT video interview on DSL Tools with Ted Neward and Gareth Jones
These videos have been around for quite a while now, but I suddenly realised that I didn't have any links to them on the blog. It's an hour or so of Ted and I chewing the fat on the why's and wherefores of Domain-Specific Development. If this is your Read More...
Clarius' T4 Editor ships V1.0
Victor pinged me to say that Clarius had launched their eagerly-awaited T4 editor for Visual Studio . That's pretty exciting news for all those of use who edit T4 templates on a daily basis - that's almost everyone these days, right? ;-) Technorati Tags: Read More...
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...
Gerardo explores domain-specific language evolution tools
Gerardo de Geest, Antoine Savelkoul and Aali Alikoski of Avanade have an interesting presentation and article about building a framework to support the evolution of languages using DSL Tools. Based on this work, Avanade hopes to be able to migrate models Read More...
Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition
Plenty has been said about this around the web, but it's pretty exciting that the first p&p Software Factory with a substantive DSL Tools component is now live. You can find The MSDN homepage at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb931187.aspx Read More...
What should we be testing?
Leonardo has an interesting post over at the himalia site, wondering whether abstractions in general (and DSLs in particular) move around the testing burden away from DSL users onto DSL authors. There's certainly a lot of implementation testing truth Read More...
Both Visual ANDALSO Basic
Ken has just announced over on the VSX blog that we're releasing our VB Pack for the VS 2005 SDK, opening up the world of Visual Studio package eXtensibility to all our Visual Basic customers. We're really keen to get your feedback on how this works out Read More...
Tech Ed Day Four: Test-driven Modeling - you heard it here first - sigh - no you didn't
As Harry reports , I had a fun discussion with Peter Provost and him on the subject of combining TDD and Modeling. I was feeling pretty smug, thinking I'd just coined the term, and planning how to spend my enormous book advance from such a cool new buzzword, Read More...
Built with DSL Tools: Tangible Architect
As Steve pointed out , here's another product based on DSL Tools technology. From the Tangible web page : " Model-Driven Code Generation featuring Drag&Drop UI-Design (Software factory supporting DSL & UML) 1. Define your business objects using Read More...
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