June 2007 - Posts

• TOOLS conference

  I'll be giving a keynote at the TOOLS conference in Zurich in a few days. There's also a workshop about DSLs at the conference - I did submit a paper to it but unfortunately cannot make the workshop itself. Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2007 10:22 AM by Steve Cook | 0 Comments Filed under: DSL Tools

• New Path Editor

  Nice description of the new path editor for DSL Tools on the VS Team Architect blog . Read More... Posted Friday, June 08, 2007 2:10 PM by Steve Cook | 0 Comments Filed under: DSL Tools

• Video of Gareth at TechEd

  Gareth speaks about DSL Tools on video - with a picture of the book. Read More... Posted Friday, June 08, 2007 11:24 AM by Steve Cook | 1 Comments

• Speeding up auto-layout

  I've been trying to speed up the way that DSL Tools lays out a bunch of lines and shapes when you start with a model file and no diagram. By default the shape layout takes a long time to layout the shapes in a rectangular grid, and doesn’t leave enough Read More... Posted Thursday, June 07, 2007 6:02 PM by Steve Cook | 1 Comments Filed under: DSL Tools

• Videos about the VS 2008 Shell

  There are some short video interviews about the new VS 2008 Shell at the VSX team blog . This is going to expand the scope of DSL Tools quite a bit, I think. Read More... Posted Thursday, June 07, 2007 5:57 PM by Steve Cook | 1 Comments Filed under: DSL Tools

• Slides from Code Generation 2007

  Many of the slides from CG2007 are available here . Several of the talks are about DSL Tools: I attended the Pisa talk which showed how DSL Tools have been very nicely integrated into a modelling workbench for a banking client. Steven Kelly has a nice Read More... Posted Thursday, June 07, 2007 9:42 AM by Steve Cook | 1 Comments Filed under: DSL Tools