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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   
Filed under Enterprise Development, Community, T4

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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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   
Filed under Modeling, Code samples, DSL Tools, VSX, Community

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

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   
Filed under Modeling, Enterprise Development, DSL Tools, Built with DSL Tools, VSX, T4

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

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 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

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