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Friday, August 14, 2009 5:33 PM

Most influential paper award

Life can throw up surprises, some nasty some rather pleasant. Well this week I received an email which was a pleasant surprise. A paper I co-wrote ten years ago, when I was a researcher before joining Microsoft, just received an award from the VL/HCC
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009 10:17 AM

News from code generation 2009

I’m at the Code Generation 2009 conference in Cambridge, which started yesterday. Numbers are a little down on last year, but not much. Attendance is mostly from industry, with some academics. As usual it’s stuffed full of people with tons of experience
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Friday, May 22, 2009 10:49 PM

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
Posted by Stuart Kent | 1 Comments
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 9:58 AM

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 .
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Friday, February 08, 2008 11:50 AM

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
Posted by Stuart Kent | 5 Comments
Thursday, February 07, 2008 12:32 PM

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.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007 10:51 AM

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
Posted by Stuart Kent | 2 Comments
Friday, September 07, 2007 5:38 PM

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
Posted by Stuart Kent | 1 Comments
Friday, September 07, 2007 10:03 AM

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
Posted by Stuart Kent | 2 Comments
Friday, June 01, 2007 11:12 AM

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
Posted by Stuart Kent | 2 Comments
Monday, September 11, 2006 12:37 PM

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
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:09 AM

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/ .
Posted by Stuart Kent | 2 Comments
Friday, June 16, 2006 11:38 AM

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...
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Monday, June 12, 2006 11:32 PM

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,
Posted by Stuart Kent | 1 Comments
Monday, June 12, 2006 4:15 PM

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.
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