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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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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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Tangible T4 Editor

I've been remiss generally in not blogging while we've been heads down on Visual Studio Beta1, but never more so than in respect of another T4 Editor that's recently become available. The good folks over at Tangible Engineering have been releasing several Read More...

Posted 23 May 09 06:30 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
Filed under Modeling, Tech thrills, DSL Tools, VSX, Community, T4

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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Customizing Generated Resources in DSL Tools

Most of the code we generate with DSL Tools is pretty agnostic about its location or the filename you use for the template or the generated output. The one exception to this is the generated resource file (usually a pair called DomainModelResx.tt/DomainModelResx.resx) Read More...

Posted 23 May 09 04:15 by GarethJ | 1 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   
Filed under Modeling, Tech thrills, Enterprise Development, DSL Tools, Built with DSL Tools, VSX

T4 Adoption continues with ASP.Net MVC Tools

Ok, the big guns are pitching in now :-) Hot on the heels of the tooling for LINQ-to-Entities folks adopting T4 for their next release , comes another. Scott Guthrie just blogged about a new RC of ASP.Net MVC that will shortly be coming along.  It's Read More...

Posted 12 January 09 11:52 by GarethJ | 2 Comments   
Filed under Modeling, DSL Tools, Built with DSL Tools, VSX, T4

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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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   
Filed under Modeling, Code samples, DSL Tools, VSX

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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Belated Welcome - Eyal Lantzman

Very poor show of me - I forgot to welcome Eyal Lantzman to the team. Eyal recently joined the team in Cambridge, (I originally wrote "us" instead of "the team" there - note to self - must remember that I live in America now!). As part of this, he's made Read More...

Posted 11 November 08 08:10 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
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DSL Tools in Visual Studio 2010 - the cat is well and truly out of the bag

So after all the excitement of the PDC, now TechEd Europe is upon us and we're finally talking in some more depth about where we're going in Visual Studio 2010 with DSL Tools. Firstly, quite a few of you have been pinging me to ask about the relationship Read More...

Posted 11 November 08 08:00 by GarethJ | 0 Comments   
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