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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 Read More...
Posted 11 August 08 11:05 by Stuart Kent | 1 Comments   
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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. Read More...
Posted 11 August 08 10:42 by Stuart Kent | 1 Comments   
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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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Agile platform development. The problem.
Classic scrum Our team uses Scrum to manage it's software development. A key tenet of Scrum is that there should be a product manager (PM) who own's a backlog (that is, a ranked list) of customer facing stories. Scrum organizes development work into sprints, Read More...
Posted 27 June 08 11:50 by Stuart Kent | 0 Comments   
Catching Up
So now I've found myself some time to get the blog started again with Long time no blog, UML and DSLs here's a little catch up on all things VSX and DSL. People Jean-Marc Prieur has recently joined the team as a program manager. Jean-Marc is a colleague Read More...
Posted 27 June 08 11:32 by Stuart Kent | 0 Comments   
Long Time No Blog, UML and DSLs
Technorati Tags: DSL Tools , UML Embarrassing, but true. Last time I blogged was back in February. I'm on one of my regular trips to Redmond, and jet lag still means I'm getting up at 4am. Usually on these trips I use the early morning to do a bit of Read More...
Posted 27 June 08 06:32 by Stuart Kent | 2 Comments   
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If you're a student, get Visual Studio Pro for free
If you're a student, then Microsoft has just announced a new program called DreamSpark to get Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition (and Expression Studio and Windows Server 2003 and XNA Game Studio and SQL Server 2005) for free. As Aaron points out Read More...
Posted 20 February 08 11:13 by Stuart Kent | 1 Comments   
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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Book on VS Extensibility
I've just seen in the VSX newsletter that there is a book on Visual Studio Extensibility soon to be published. Details on http://nayyeri.net/ . Read More...
Posted 08 February 08 10:56 by Stuart Kent | 1 Comments   
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Quan started blogging about VSX
Quan is a new (and, I should say, very productive) PM on the VS Ecosystem Team. He's now started blogging about VSX stuff, and good posts there are too. If your new to VSX then the following post might help you get into it. He's included both VB and C# Read More...
Posted 07 February 08 01:19 by Stuart Kent | 1 Comments   
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Great links from Gareth
Gareth is obviously settled in the US now, because he's starting to become a prolific blog poster again. Unlike me, who only manages it in spurts. He's recently put up a series of posts with some great links. So for those of you who don't already read Read More...
Posted 07 February 08 01:07 by Stuart Kent | 1 Comments   
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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Jobs on our team (in UK and US)
Our team is continuing to expand. We now have jobs available in both Redmond (US) and Cambridge (UK). Gareth provides the details . Technorati Tags: jobs , software development Read More...
Posted 10 December 07 10:29 by Stuart Kent | 1 Comments   
Hiking in the snow
I've been visiting Redmond to work with the team over there. I stayed over the weekend and got to go hiking in the snow with Andy Bliven, a developer in Team Architect. We were blessed with a gloriously sunny, but bitterly cold day between two snow storms. Read More...
Posted 05 December 07 10:59 by Stuart Kent | 2 Comments   
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, Read More...
Posted 05 December 07 06:03 by Stuart Kent | 0 Comments   
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