August 2007 - Posts

• Using LINQ to write constraints in OCL style v3

  In a comment to my last post, Keith Short challenged me to write a version of this constraint with good error reporting, i.e. to post an error to the task list that gives the names of the duplicate properties, and supports navigation to the element that Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 29, 2007 2:48 PM by Steve Cook | 8 Comments Filed under: DSL Tools

• Using LINQ to write constraints in OCL style v2

  Based on Michael Giagnocavo's feedback, here's a cleaner version of my last post. Thanks Michael. [ ValidationState ( ValidationState .Enabled)] public partial class ExampleElement { [ ValidationMethod ( ValidationCategories .Menu | ValidationCategories Read More... Posted Thursday, August 23, 2007 6:35 PM by Steve Cook | 3 Comments Filed under: DSL Tools

• Using LINQ to write constraints in OCL style

  I wanted to investigate using LINQ to write constraints "OCL-style". I made a "minimal language" and added a new NamedDomainClass called Property, embedded in ExampleElement. Then I wrote the following validation method to check that all of the Properties Read More... Posted Thursday, August 23, 2007 3:18 PM by Steve Cook | 7 Comments Filed under: DSL Tools

• DSL Tools team joins VS Ecosystem team

  I'm back from a very nice family holiday. As announced on the VSX Team Blog the DSL Tools team has joined up with the Visual Studio Ecosystem team. We're working out how to integrate the DSL Tools authoring into the overall VS Extensibility experience. Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 21, 2007 1:18 PM by Steve Cook | 0 Comments Filed under: DSL Tools