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Peter on UML Tools Extensibility
My esteemed colleague Peter Provost – whom I consistently fail to convince that I’m not into process engineering ;-) - has the first in what I’m sure will be a very informative series on extending the UML designers in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Edition Read More...
Posted 27 October 09 07:56 by GarethJ | 0 Comments   
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DTE and T4 - Better Together
A couple of folks out there have put together some really neat T4 templates that use the host-specific flag and then access Visual Studio's DTE object model to read state from other code in the project and use that as metadata for code generation. Daniel Read More...
Posted 25 September 09 07:27 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
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T4 and Silverlight in Visual Studio 2008
Colin Eberhardt has a nice article on The Code Project walking through using a small textual DSL encoded in XML to define a set of dependency properties and then using that as a data source for T4 to generate all of the necessary boilerplate code. Apart Read More...
Posted 25 September 09 06:32 by GarethJ | 2 Comments   
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ASP.Net MVC T4 Updates
Couple of newsworthy T4 links for the wildly popular ASP.Net MVC framework. This one is from July but I hadn't spotted it - David Ebbo has a new version of his T4MVC set of templates for view generation. Space Invader Zim (nice name) has a walkthrough Read More...
Posted 25 September 09 06:13 by GarethJ | 0 Comments   
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Peter Vogel on Code Generation
There's a fun interview with Peter Vogel on the subject of Code Gen on the ever-popular .NET Rocks talkshow. He's got a new code gen book coming out and in the interview he says he's going to have an "expansion pack" for the book to cover T4. Can't wait Read More...
Posted 25 September 09 06:06 by GarethJ | 0 Comments   
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T4 Templates for SharePoint
For all you SharePoint heads out there, Waldek Mastykarz has a couple of neat articles on generating some of the various config files that control a SharePoint instance using T4: Visual Studio T4 template for SharePoint Solution (DDF) Visual Studio T4 Read More...
Posted 25 September 09 04:56 by GarethJ | 0 Comments   
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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...
Posted 23 May 09 04:37 by GarethJ | 2 Comments   
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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...
Posted 28 February 09 06:09 by GarethJ | 2 Comments   
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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...
Posted 06 February 09 08:58 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
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Clarius take T4 editing to the next level
I see that Clarius have now got to an alpha stage for the next stage of their T4 editing toolset. As well as their Community Edition and Pro Edition, they're now going to offer a full-featured code generation environment they're calling Visual T4 Code Read More...
Posted 04 February 09 10:23 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
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More on T4 in ASP.Net MVC
Abhishek from the MVC team has just posted some detailed instructions on using the new T4 customization features in the ASP.Net MVP release candidate Very cool. Technorati Tags: T4 , ASP.Net MVC , Code generation , Visual Studio Read More...
Posted 04 February 09 10:08 by GarethJ | 2 Comments   
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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...
Posted 09 January 09 01:53 by GarethJ | 0 Comments   
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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...
Posted 12 November 08 12:38 by GarethJ | 2 Comments   
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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...
Posted 11 November 08 10:03 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
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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...
Posted 15 October 08 03:58 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
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