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Pascal Recchia and Anthony Guérot from Mexedge just published a new article: " Provide an improved user experience to your DSL's " about how to use WPF with your DSLs even in Visual Studio 2008. The technology they use is similar to what we
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Behavior in previous versions of the DSL Tools In previous versions of the DSL Tools, the copy/cut/paste of model elements did not work very well. There were limitations, and even bugs that prevented very elaborate scenarios. In case you are interested,
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Behavior in previous versions of the DSL Tools In previous versions of the DSL Tools, such as, in the DSL Class diagram which is provided as a sample, you could very easily end-up with a very cluttered diagram: New behavior With the moveable decorators
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Behavior in previous versions of the DSL Tools In previous versions of the DSL Tools, each time you wanted to create a shape or a connector, you had to: go to the toolbox, and click on the domain shape / connector that you wanted to create Come to the
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We just published a new sample demonstrating how to extend a DSL after it has shipped. The sample presents a DSL to explain the architecture of a multi-Tiered application. Each tier is made of components, which have ports. Connections are made between
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Today we made a new Beta1 sample available on the Code Gallery ( http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/DslTools ). This sample, named ImsLocks, explains how a DSL author can prevent the DSL user from editing partially or completely his designer. This can be
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I’m excited to announce you that we just posted a first DSL SDK 2010 Beta1 sample available from http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/DslTools . This sample demonstrates the use of the ModelBus. the source code is available here StateMachineOverModelBus.zip
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After the Visual Studio 2010 SDK announcement yesterday, it’s my turn to be excited to announce the availability, today, of the Visual Studio 2010 DSL SDK Beta1 ! A separate download? Why? Visual Studio 2010 ships with the DSL Tools and T4 runtime
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Until now, I have been using Clarius’s T4 editor . However, Oleg recently wrote a post where he presents an overview of a new T4 editor he has been using: Tangible engineering’s T4 editor . I did not have time to download it, busy as we are preparing
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Presentation of the problem: Deleting behaviour with compartments representing embeddings Most of the time, in the DSL Tools, you map compartments in compartment shapes to embedding relationships. And then, deleting a compartment item in the compartment
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