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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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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   
Filed under Modeling, Tech thrills, Enterprise Development, DSL Tools, VSX, T4

Gnomz Software's Viewpoints for Visual Studio

Graham from Gnomz Software pinged to mention his company's DSL-based viewpoint business modeling system. Check it out: Technorati Tags: DSL Tools , VSX , Visual Studio Extensibility Read More...

Posted 16 September 08 12:23 by GarethJ | 0 Comments   
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Come to the VSX DevCon

James has just posted a few of the session abstracts for our spiffy VSX Developer Conference to be held in Redmond, WA this September. Much VSX and DSL goodness and a chance to bug the team about what you want us to be creating next. Take a look and get Read More...

Posted 30 July 08 04:07 by GarethJ | 0 Comments   
Filed under Modeling, The real world, DSL Tools, VSX, Community

DSL Book samples updated for Visual Studio 2008

It's taken us a little while, but the code samples for our book, Domain-Specific Development with Visual Studio DSL Tools, are now updated for Visual Studio 2008. You can download them from www.domainspecificdevelopment.com . Woo Hoo. Enjoy. Technorati Read More...

Posted 23 July 08 12:25 by GarethJ | 2 Comments   
Filed under Modeling, Code samples, Tech thrills, DSL Tools, VSX

We shipped the Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 Beta!

Quan just announced that today we shipped another release of the Visual Studio 2008 SDK . See more detail including the readme over on his blog . Incidentally, you can meet Quan and also Mariano and Gearard from our team at TechEd Developers 2008 down Read More...

Posted 20 May 08 04:41 by GarethJ | 3 Comments   
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Where have all the testers gone?

(With apologies to Paula Cole ) We've had jobs posted for testers for DSL Tools and the other cool Visual Studio eXtensibility things we're doing here in Redmond on the Visual Studio Ecosystem team for a while now and to my amazement, they're still open. Read More...

Posted 20 May 08 02:51 by GarethJ | 2 Comments   
Filed under Sounding off, The real world, DSL Tools, VSX

Couple more VSX bloggers

And here's a couple more folks with VSX/DSL related blog series that I missed from my previous post: Long-time DSL-er (and recent MSFT hire) Andre Furtado has a series of DSL posts indexed under DSL Tools: how to resources Sebastian Talamoni has a bunch Read More...

Posted 20 May 08 02:31 by GarethJ | 3 Comments   
Filed under Modeling, Tech thrills, DSL Tools, VSX, Community

A rash of bloggers

Just lately there seems to be a veritable feast of new blog stuff about VSX (if you don't mind me switching metaphors). Some of these I stumbled across and some were pointed up to me by DuncanP. Oleg Sych now has a great series of T4 posts An explanatory Read More...

Posted 14 May 08 05:33 by GarethJ | 2 Comments   
Filed under Modeling, DSL Tools, VSX, Community, T4

CSLAFactory.net

Josef Eissing and Marcel Binot just dropped me a note to say that they'd released a CTP of their new DSL for working with Rocky Lhotka's popular CSLA application framework . Having played Killer Bunnies with Rocky one time, I thought I'd better give it Read More...

Posted 21 April 08 03:32 by GarethJ | 4 Comments   
Filed under Modeling, DSL Tools, Built with DSL Tools, VSX, Community

Struggling with your Command Tables? VSCT PowerToy is here

vsct files (and their predecessors, ctc files) can be tricky little beasts to get just right. As Pablo notes , the VSCT PowerToy lets you browse through all the installed command tables to see what effect your package has had and also directly opens vsct Read More...

Posted 10 April 08 04:53 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
Filed under Modeling, DSL Tools, VSX, Community

Come hang out at VS Live in San Francisco

Just a quick note that my colleague Anthony Cangialosi and I will be speaking about Visual Studio eXtensibility, DSL Tools, Visual Studio 2008 Shell and other similar goodness at VS Live in San Francisco on Monday. Hope to see some of you there or at Read More...

Posted 28 March 08 07:35 by GarethJ | 1 Comments   
Filed under Modeling, The real world, DSL Tools, VSX, Community

Tidbit for squeaking customization of DSL Add... menu items

I've answered this a couple of times internally, so I thought I'd better post it. The Add... menus in DSL Designers are dynamically generated from the ElementMergeDirective data you supply as part of your model. For example, if you say that a domain class Read More...

Posted 19 March 08 07:58 by GarethJ | 0 Comments   
Filed under Modeling, Code samples, DSL Tools, VSX

Visual Studio Gallery is Live

Soma has just announced that our new Gallery for all kinds of VS eXtensions is live. Major props to Anthony Cangialosi , as he's been been the driving force behind making this happen. You can find Anthony discussing the Gallery with Ken Levy on video Read More...

Posted 27 February 08 08:05 by GarethJ | 3 Comments   
Filed under Modeling, DSL Tools, VSX, Community

New DSL Tools Videos Online

I've just noticed that at the top of the Visual Studio Start Page RSS feed today are two groovy videos on DSL Tools - one on basics and one on more advanced customizations. And a really fun domain chosen - modeling the solar system! How Do I: Create and Read More...

Posted 23 February 08 02:05 by GarethJ | 3 Comments   
Filed under Modeling, DSL Tools, VSX

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