Model Driven Development – Microsoft joins OMG

Object Management Group (OMG) are a modelling standards group.

 Last week at Tech-ed 2008 I gave a talk that included, amongst other things, a quick demo of the UML designers in the April CTP of Rosario (the next version of Visual Studio Team System). Lots of people have asked since what is our direction on modelling. Questions such as ‘What is the future for  Domain Specific Langugaes (DSL) going to be ?”; “Are we going to go with a full ‘round trip’ code vision with this ?”

The answer is ‘watch this space’ and watch for developments in products, product previews *1, standards and standards group memberships / participation. One such move has just happened today – Bob Muglia Senior Vice President of Microsoft’s Server and Tools business has just announced that Microsoft is joining OMG. Here is the announcement. Now this has happened my own personal opinion is that I think it is a pretty safe bet that UML has a strong future on the MS platform and inside Visual Studio Team system.

The next ‘marker post’ along this road will be the next CTP release for Rosario, likely to be later this month. The moment it shows up I will post the link to this blog.

*1: Rosario CTP’s are currently prime source of information for those working on the Microsoft Platform;