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Speaking at Code Generation 2009

I’m speaking at the Code Generation 2009 conference in Cambridge in June on the topic of Code-Centric or Model-Centric – Approaches to developing software . Jean-Marc is also speaking on What’s new in the DSL Tools and T4 in Visual Studio 2010 . I’m really

Vs2008 version of Dsl Book Samples

We've finally converted all the samples for our book on Domain Specific Development for VS2008. They can be downloaded from www.domainspecificdevelopment.com .

More rapid deployment of VS extensions

Over on Deep's blog I came across the following comment to his post on Tools for Tools . I had looked at creating a DSL for one of our projects a while ago, and in the end decided against it because the deployment was too complicated. In particular, here

Other talks involving DSL Tools at TechEd Europe

Yesterday I posted about VSX talks at TechEd Europe, including one I'm giving on DSL Tools. I forgot to mention a couple of other talks involving the use of DSL Tools in software factories. Jezz Santos gives the details . Unfortunately Jezz can't be there

Graphical design of cuncurrent applications

I was sent email by Alastair McKeeman from Connective Logic Systems, a UK based company. They've done some cool work on tools to build concurrent apps targeted at multi-core processors. They have a graphical designer hosted in Visual Studio, implemented

Microsoft Moves Ahead with Software Modeling

That's the title of an article in e-week reporting on an interview with Soma . Thanks to Gareth and Pedro for pointing this out. When I joined Microsoft four and half years ago, I left a career as a reasearcher in model driven development to join a company

Talking at Dev Days in Amsterdam

I'm giving a talk on Extending Visual Studio with tools for Model Driven Development at Dev Days in Amsterdam on Thursday June 14th. I should be there for the whole day on Thursday (my talk is at the end of the day), so if you want to meet just contact

DSL Tools documentation now available on MSDN...

..at the link http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa396774.aspx This is actually the documentation for our version 1 release which will be available soon as part of the Visual Studio 2005 SDK version 3 release - see http://blogs.msdn.com/stuart_kent/archive/2006/08/31/733372.aspx

Jos Warmer on small models

Here is a great post from Jos Warmer over on the DSL Tools forum. He makes some good arguments. Please add your own opinions to the discussion. We'll definitely take note as we think about the next set of features...

DLinq Designer

Goto http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/ref/linq/ and download the latest CTP of LINQ. There you'll find a designer for DLINQ that's hosted in Visual Studio. Anything look familiar? Wondering what tools were used to build it? If you haven't guessed by now,

VSTS Work Item Type designer

Darren just IM'ed me to say that he had put out his first preview of the work item type designer he's been building with DSL Tools. See http://blogs.msdn.com/darrenj/archive/2006/03/20/555821.aspx

Belated announcement of February CTP of DSL Tools

I've been so immersed in getting V1 DSL Tools out the door, that I see I haven't posted a blog entry yet this year. I'm also very late in telling you about the new release of DSL Tools. The main purpose of this release was to integrate DSL Tools into

Seven stages of models

There aren't really seven, but it makes for a good title (look up "seven stages shakespeare" if you're feeling puzzled at this point.) Anyway, I've been watching a debate between Harry , Gareth and now Steven , on the process of building models, including

The ideal tool...

Just noticed this little nugget over on Steven's blog at MetaCase (just gloss over the blatant marketing): "Obviously the ideal tool would be as fast and powerful to use as MetaEdit+, and have its maturity, but also have the extensibility of Microsoft's

Automating tedious tasks

I've just added a new byline to my blog: automating tedious tasks . A complaint often levelled at Software Factories is that it will turn developers into automatons, just pushing buttons to drive the factory to do all the clever stuff. I think the exact
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