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Monday, November 23, 2009 11:33 AM

Codename “Oslo” Repository Becomes SQL Server Modeling Services

At last week’s PDC, the new name for our repository and modeling project was announced – we are the SQL Server Modeling Services! James Baker and Shoshanna Budzianowski did an awesome job of describing the Modeling Services database and how to get value
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Thursday, July 09, 2009 3:17 PM

What happened to the Service Model?

I just looked at Mikael Håkansson’s blog article on building a Web Service Model using M and the Oslo Repository ( http://blogical.se/blogs/mikael/default.aspx ) It’s a very nice article. As Mikael observes, the Service Model we shipped in January was
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009 2:10 PM

Oslo and UML

It’s been a while since my last posting. Why? The truth is quite simple – about five months ago I became involved in a small team building some specific content for our Oslo repository. This team was working using Scrum techniques with two week milestones.
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Friday, January 09, 2009 1:29 PM

Oslo Makes the Top Ten

We’re just getting back into the swing of things after a couple of weeks break over the Christmas holidays, not to mention the disruption of unusually heavy snow followed by floods here in the Seattle area. Two articles caught my attention this week.
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Monday, December 08, 2008 11:19 AM

Oslo and Software Factories

I’ve had a few people ask me about the connection between the Microsoft Software Factories initiative and Oslo. First, the SF initiative is alive and well and a good summary of the current state appears here . I just had a demo from Jack Greenfield’s
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:37 AM

Comments on Communication Between Doug Purdy and Lars Corneliussen

Doug has published a response to an Open Letter addressed to him from Lars Corneliussen . I think Doug did a good job in addressing Lars’ concerns, and where not, to invite discussion. I wanted to add a couple of comments of my own. First: terminology
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Thursday, November 06, 2008 2:30 PM

Oslo and the DSL Toolkit

I’ve received a number of questions concerning the relationship of Oslo to the Visual Studio DSL Toolkit. Comments have varied from the sublime (see David Ing’s comment on his blog “ My best guess is that the DSL Toolkit is research road kill in front
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Friday, October 31, 2008 11:13 AM

Oslo at the PDC

The PDC is now over and by all measures has been a great success. The Oslo talks have been received with great enthusiasm. Any one not following the activity on our MSDN forum who missed the sessions might want to look at this entry on the forum that
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Friday, October 24, 2008 4:10 PM

Yet Another Promise to Start Blogging !!

Yet again, it’s been a long time since I wrote to my blog. This posting is my restart. I know, you just have to look at the last posting of over two years ago to realize I’ve said that before! But here’s what happened. Shortly after writing that last
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Friday, January 06, 2006 2:17 PM

Recent Postings by Enterprise Tools Architects

I’ve been lax with my blog for the last two months. I plan to do better this year! During the last two months, we have of course shipped Visual Studio 2005 so our modeling tools for developers and architects finally are in the hands of customers. This
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Monday, October 31, 2005 3:24 PM

Software Factories at OOPSLA 2005

OOPSLA 2005 in San Diego was a fun event. It was great to chat with lots of old friends and sit in on some interesting sessions and panels. Our team was represented at a number of events. Jack Greenfield and Steve Cook presented a one day tutorial on
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Friday, September 23, 2005 9:51 AM

Windows Workflow Foundation

After the announcement last week of this great piece of technology, we can finally all start to talk about it. Although you can code directly against the WWF, it contains a nice example of a couple of graphical DSLs that allow the developer to declaratively
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Wednesday, August 24, 2005 3:35 PM

Steve Cook Interview

Back off three weeks vacation always causes severe "re-entry" problems! But digging myself out of the email stack I noticed Steve Cook has posted a very good interview with Roy Osherove on Software Factories and DSLs. You can download the interview as
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Friday, July 01, 2005 2:37 PM

Software Factories & DSLs

A couple of interesting items have appeared recently that will be of interest to folks following our stories on Software Factories and DSL’s. I had posted earlier some examples of Software Factories that generated quite a bit of comment from readers.
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Friday, May 27, 2005 1:33 PM

Microsoft's Modeling Strategy

My team has written a document that explains Microsoft’s Modeling Strategy and addresses a number of FAQ’s we get from customers and partners. The outline is: Why Modeling? How Are DSLs Used in Model-Driven Development? What About UML? What About MDA?
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