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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...
Posted 16 September 08 12:32 by GarethJ | 2 Comments   
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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   
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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 | 4 Comments   
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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   
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Fun use of T4 to generate strongly-typed web navigation
I wondered how long it would be before folks outside of the DSL Tools/VSX/SF community started to pick up on the fact that T4 is in every VS box as of VS 2008. Here's my answer... Kirill Chilingarashvili has a nice example of turning some weakly typed Read More...
Posted 31 January 08 05:15 by GarethJ | 6 Comments   
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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...
Posted 25 January 08 02:38 by GarethJ | 0 Comments   
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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...
Posted 18 December 07 06:45 by GarethJ | 2 Comments   
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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...
Posted 10 October 07 12:56 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
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You learn something new every day (or two things, if you're lucky)
We've been talking a lot lately about managing breaking changes on our team, so I spent some time reading Erip Lippert's excellent series on the topic. Whilst doing so, I learned something about C# that I was at least somewhat embarrased not to know. Read More...
Posted 20 September 07 10:00 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
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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...
Posted 17 September 07 01:28 by GarethJ | 0 Comments   
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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...
Posted 08 June 07 09:16 by GarethJ | 0 Comments   
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Lutz Roeder's Reflector 5.0
Essential tool - essential update. Nuff said. Link to Marquee de Sells: Chris's insight outlet Read More...
Posted 22 February 07 02:40 by GarethJ | 0 Comments   
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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...
Posted 30 January 07 07:25 by GarethJ | 6 Comments   
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Sandcastle - Create MSDN-style documentation for your .Net assemblies
I see that a CTP of Sandcastle has just been launched. From their blog: "Enabling managed class library developers throughout the world to easily create accurate, informative documentation with a common look and feel" Back when I was building enterprise Read More...
Posted 01 August 06 11:18 by GarethJ | 0 Comments   
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Software Factories Platform job vacancies in Cambridge
It's time to build out our dev team in Cambridge to help bring together assets like DSL Tools and GAT into a Software Factories platform, so we're hiring. If you’re passionate about this stuff and you're an outstanding .Net developer, drop me a note. Read More...
Posted 07 July 06 06:59 by GarethJ | 0 Comments   
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