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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   
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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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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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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   
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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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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 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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Using extension methods in T4 templates

Adam has a groovy post on T4 , but he's under the impression that you can't use C# extension methods in T4. I just wanted to discuss the limitations that exist and show how you can take advantage of this cool C#/VB 3.5 feature. Extension methods require Read More...

Posted 30 October 08 12:54 by GarethJ | 4 Comments   
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Another collection of T4 resources

Hot on the heels of all the interest Scott's post has generated in T4, Jon Stonecash has a useful consolidation of T4 links . Technorati Tags: T4 Read More...

Posted 23 October 08 06:41 by GarethJ | 2 Comments   
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New DSL Screencasts avaialble from VSX Conference

Just a quick note that there are a couple of DSL/T4 specific sessions among the plethora of great VSX content just posted by Anthony . Jean-Marc's DSL 101 Session Domain-Specific Development with Visual Studio DSL Tools Domain-Specific Language Models Read More...

Posted 21 October 08 08:15 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
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Hanselman gives T4 some love.

Aaron just pointed out to me that Scott Hanselman has been lavishing love on T4 , Oleg's techniques library and the Clarius T4 Editor . Nice one Scott. Scott also notes that Rob is using it to create a nice repository over a DB for his SubSonic project. Read More...

Posted 14 October 08 10:00 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
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Does anyone use T4's support for calling the VS service from unmanaged code?

We're considering dropping this support in the next version of Visual Studio and restricting T4 to being called as a managed API. If this presents problems for you because you have a dependency on the COM interface, please shout now. Technorati Tags: Read More...

Posted 24 September 08 11:39 by GarethJ | 2 Comments   
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