I arrived in Los Angeles last night to attend the PDC 05. I just noticed that last three months were incredibly busy for the DSL team and I didn't even write a single blog entry. We were all focused on completing the planning for our DSL Tools "Version 1" product. We designed the scenarios and worked out the project plans for the remaining milestones. We were pretty open about our plans and roadmap in our user forum and we will post our plans pretty soon on our DSL Tools homepage.

At the same time we were finishing up remaining work for the modeling platform in VS 2005. As you know the new designers for service-oriented applications, the deployment designer and the class designer are already being built on the same modeling platform that is the foundation of the DSL Tools. Also during this time a number of new members joined our team and got started on the DSL technology. I am really looking forward to see the next DSL Tools CTP releases! We will start with a new CTP release of the DSL Tools sometime during this week. This next version of the DSL Tools will still run on top of VS 2005 Beta 2. We plan to ship a CTP for the final bits of VS 2005 right after the official launch. As you will see we are building more complex visual languages now and we start shipping richer templates with this release. Stay tuned ...