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There is already a post on the forum, about that, but I feel that I need to communicate a bit more. What is the problem? You downloaded and installed the brand new VS2010 Beta2, installed the VSSDK, and the DSL SDK You unfold a new Dsl, let’s say
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I’m a bit late to announce it, but only now do I find the time to blog: this morning, we released the DSL SDK for Visual Studio Beta2. It is available from Visual Studio 2010 DSL SDK Beta2 , and, as for the Beta1, you’ll need to install the Visual Studio
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Among other things, I’m preparing my talk to the Development Tools Ecosystem Summit in Redmond October 19-23, and it’s the time, after the hard work we’ve been doing on producing the Beta2 of Visual Studio, to come back to you, customers and partners.
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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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I was going to blog a bit about pre-processed T4 templates, that Gareth already explained a few months ago ( rationale and basic design ), when my attention was drown on Pablo’s posts about the subject: VS10 Beta 1 / T4 Preprocessing part 1 explains why
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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 DslTools, when you wanted to export a selection to an image, or to the Clipboard, you had to write some custom code, or just take a screen copy of what you wanted. New Behavior
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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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Introduction In the Visual Studio 2010 DSL SDK Beta1, we added a few UI enhancements to the graphical designers. This post and the following aim at starting presenting them. I’ll update the links in this post to the following posts as I write them, The
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Pablo Galiano , from Clarius, has produced some nice content explaining the Visual Studio 10 extensibility, which is based on the notion of VSIX, and also uses a lot MEF. He gives some links MEF, and presents the Microsoft.VisualStudio.ComponentModelHost
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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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