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An Article about DSLs and WPF : “Provide an improved user experience to your DSLs”
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 Read More...

Posted Tuesday, September 22, 2009 7:01 AM by jmprieur | 0 Comments

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Copy / Cut / Paste of model elements
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, Read More...

Posted Wednesday, July 22, 2009 1:43 AM by jmprieur | 0 Comments

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Moveable decorators
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 Read More...

Posted Thursday, July 16, 2009 2:15 PM by jmprieur | 0 Comments

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Sticky toolbox items
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 Read More...

Posted Thursday, July 16, 2009 12:16 PM by jmprieur | 0 Comments

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New sample demonstrating the Domain Model Extensibility
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 Read More...

Posted Saturday, June 27, 2009 12:42 AM by jmprieur | 0 Comments

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New Beta1 sample available: ImsLocks.
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 Read More...

Posted Tuesday, June 23, 2009 8:46 AM by jmprieur | 0 Comments

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A ModelBus sample is now available !
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 Read More...

Posted Monday, June 01, 2009 8:19 PM by jmprieur | 1 Comments

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Announcing the Visual Studio 2010 DSL SDK Beta 1
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 Read More...

Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 8:59 AM by jmprieur | 8 Comments

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Another T4 editor, by Tangible Engineering
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 Read More...

Posted Thursday, April 16, 2009 9:48 PM by jmprieur | 2 Comments

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[DSL Tools] Reference relationships and compartment shapes
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 Read More...

Posted Saturday, August 30, 2008 5:33 AM by jmprieur | 1 Comments

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