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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 . Read More...
Posted 23 July 08 09:58 by Stuart Kent | 1 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 08 February 08 11:50 by Stuart Kent | 5 Comments   
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Great posting on distributed development
One of my colleagues (thanks Blair) pointed me at this: http://blogs.msdn.com/eric_brechner/archive/2008/02/01/so-far-away-distributed-development.aspx Our team is distributed between the US and UK and many of the points mentioned ring true in our experience. Read More...
Posted 07 February 08 12:32 by Stuart Kent | 0 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 26 September 07 10:51 by Stuart Kent | 2 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 07 September 07 05:38 by Stuart Kent | 1 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 07 September 07 10:03 by Stuart Kent | 2 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 01 June 07 11:12 by Stuart Kent | 2 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 11 September 06 12:37 by Stuart Kent | 0 Comments   
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Storyboarding tool integrated with team system
A while back I posted about how useful I find storyboards in the specification process. Now there's a tool integrated with VSTS for doing storyboarding. Check it out at http://www.stpsoft.co.uk/story/ . Read More...
Posted 16 August 06 10:09 by Stuart Kent | 2 Comments   
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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... Read More...
Posted 16 June 06 11:38 by Stuart Kent | 0 Comments   
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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, Read More...
Posted 12 June 06 11:32 by Stuart Kent | 1 Comments   
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Sam has started blogging
Sam Guckenheimer has started blogging - http://blogs.msdn.com/sam/ Sam is the chief product planner for Visual Studio Team System. He's also just written a book about it. Read More...
Posted 12 June 06 04:15 by Stuart Kent | 0 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 21 March 06 12:53 by Stuart Kent | 1 Comments   
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Japanese translation of Software Factories book
Another belated announcement. The Japanase translation of the Software Factories book is now available: http://bpstore.nikkeibp.co.jp/nsp/special/0472x/ Read More...
Posted 10 February 06 03:58 by Stuart Kent | 0 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 10 February 06 09:36 by Stuart Kent | 0 Comments   
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