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Well lots of announcements this week with the VS Beta coming out... so here's one more: The Visual Studio 2010 DSL SDK Beta1 is available for download! This one is near and dear to me because I've worked on DSL Tools in the past, and it's wonderful to
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The folks at Clarius have an update to their T4 template editor. They're now in Beta . It's a very useful editor for anyone doing large amounts of T4 template editing with good factoring of template code vs script and color coding of keywords.
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In case you're looking for the DSL Tools forum and can't find it at its last location, it has moved into the VSX (stands for Visual Studio Extensibility :) forum, so you can ask your DSL-related questions there. And, here's the new link: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=57&SiteID=1
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There's an interesting story in eWeek about Microsoft's work on Software Modeling . A lot of discussion about the future, but DSL Tools is really the present and the tip of the spear for a lot of the work that Microsoft is doing in software modeling.
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Mark passed around a link to a cool new DSL that lets you generate the WIX for a setup project from a diagram (or model) of your set of applications. This looks like a really cool use of DSL Tools, and it's on CodePlex for anyone that wants to have a
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Clarius has recently released their latest version of a T4 template editor - something quite useful for those DSL authors doing very much code generation. The editor includes: - Syntax coloring - Intellisense/Code completion - Collapsible regions of code
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In case you've all been wondering what has been happening with DSL Tools since v1 shipped, we've been working on getting it into the Orcas releases. The DSL runtime is now in the VS box itself, so it's no longer necessary to install the runtime with your
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Kristoffer , a UI designer working with the DSL Tools team, recently posted a screen shot and some questions about the new DSL Designer that we're working on. If you'd like a sneak peek, have a look. Also, if you have any comments for him about the new
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Darren Jefford just posted about the Work Item Type Designer that he's been working on for a while. This designer was built using early versions of the DSL Toolkit , and now he's updating it to the Feb CTP. On the bright side, there was a lot of custom
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Gaston recently posted how to use his T4 template editor to work with GAT (Microsoft's Guidance Automation Toolkit) templates. DSL Tools and GAT both use the T4 text templating engine, so if you learn to write templates in one, you can use that knowledge
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Daniel has a great post about how to programmatically load a DSL domain model file . This is useful in case you want to process the domain model file outside of the DSL designer, like in a GAT or VS add-in, or run across the domain model data in a command-line
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There have been several questions on the DSL Tools forum about how to set shapes at specific locations when they're create. That type of custom placement that is definitely possible to do in our diagrams. Our modeling system has a feature called Rules
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Edward Bakker has a great blog that's largely about his adventures in using the DSL Toolkit to create some domain-specific languages. He's done an 18-post series so far on DSL Tools, ranging from just getting started and introductory information to creating
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There was a question on our forums about how to set the end points of a Connector programmatically, rather than having them calculated dynamically. This is possible to do in DSL Tools with some custom code. You can set the FromEndPoint and ToEndPoint
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I just noticed that George Mathew recently started blogging. He's also a developer on DSL Tools. He's worked on the text templating engine and the underlying domain model infrastructure. Stop by and say hello.
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