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Monday, November 02, 2009 1:31 PM

Jean-Marc blogs about DSL Tools in VS2010 Beta2

Back from holiday (in Cyprus, 30 degrees C, very relaxing thanks), and as I suggested might happen in my previous entry , I see that Jean-Marc has blogged about DSL Tools in VS2010 Beta2: We released the DSL SDK for Visual Studio Beta2 this morning .
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 12:47 PM

IMS Locks Sample for VS DSL Tools 2010 Beta1

I see that Jean-Marc has just posted another sample on the DSL Tools Code Gallery landing page , this time about the new IMS Locks capability. This allows you to make some parts of your models read-only, which is good for situations where some users (say
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009 7:49 AM

ModelBus Adapters Project Template

Jean-Marc has just posted a ModelBus Adapters project template on the Visual Studio Gallery . This template makes it easy to a modelbus adapter and adapter manager to your own DSL, which exposes your DSL for reference and access from other DSLs. This
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009 11:07 PM

DSL Tools VS2010 Beta1: ModelBus Sample

One of the most common asks from customers of the DSL Tools has been support for integrating models and designers, that is the ability to have models of the same or different DSL cross-reference one another, and the ability to write simple code that exploits
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Friday, May 22, 2009 11:54 PM

Much simpler deployment of DSLs in VS2010

In Visual Studio 2010 you’ll find a new extension manager that makes it much easier to package and deploy extensions to Visual Studio. Pedro has more information: Early Buzz on the VS SDK and Extension Manager , Introducing VS Extension Manager . We’ve
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Friday, May 22, 2009 10:39 PM

T4 Roundup

Gareth has been posting a lot about T4 over the past few months. In case you missed it, here’s a roundup of all his posts, in chronological order. Lots there to get your teeth into. Fun use of T4 to generate strongly-typed web navigation More general-purpose
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Friday, May 22, 2009 10:12 PM

Migrating DSLs to VS2010 Beta1

When we released DSL Tools for VS2008, the migration story from VS2005 was not great: basically we provided a sheet of manual instructions which led to a fragile and long-winded experience. This time we’ve done a lot better. In the VS2010 DSL SDK Beta1
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Friday, May 22, 2009 11:41 AM

DSL Tools for Visual Studio 2010

It seems that my blog entries and those of some of my colleagues ( Steve , Jean-Marc , Gareth ) are like London buses: you wait for ages and then three come at once. And I’m definitely the worst offender – that bus which breaks down all the time. Anyway,
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008 5:10 PM

Back with Team Architect

As Cameron blogged in Visual Studio Team System 2010 Architecture: Prologue , the DSL Tools team have recently moved back to Team Architect from the Visual Studio Platform team. We’ve been working increasingly closely with Team Architect since they renewed
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Monday, November 10, 2008 12:33 PM

Teach yourself DSL Tools

Jean-Marc has just posted a lab on code gallery, which provides a fully worked, step-by-step example of creating a DSL from scratch. If you're new to DSL Tools, or want to teach others how to use them, then you may find this useful. Nearly forgot the
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Monday, August 11, 2008 11:05 AM

Chinese version of DSL Book published

Our colleagues in China have been busy translating our DSL Book into Chinese. It's taken 6 months and 9 translators. See http://blogs.msdn.com/stbcblog/archive/2008/07/24/Domain-Specific-Development-with-Visual-Studio-DSL-Tools.aspx for the story. The
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Monday, August 11, 2008 10:42 AM

VSX Developer Conference

We're holding our first Visual Studio Extensibility Developer conference in September. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsx/cc676517.aspx for details, including information on how to sign up.
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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
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 6:03 PM

Sample of hosting a DSL in the VS2008 isolated shell

A new sample has been published of a hosting a DSL in the VS2008 isolated shell. See http://www.codeplex.com/storyboarddesigner . The isolated shell is a stripped out VS shell who's UI and splash screen you can customize. VS packages, including DSLs,
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 12:45 PM

Help with using the VS2008 Shell

Pablo has written a series of posts that should be of help to anyone thinking of hosting their applications in the VS2008 shell: Customizing a VS Shell application Integrating a VS Package with a VS Shell application VS Shell application deployment Creating
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