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Wednesday, November 25, 2009 11:23 AM

Empirical assessment of the efficacy of MDE: Can you help?

I’m lending my support to a research project which is trying to assess the effectiveness of MDE. The project is being led by Jon Whittle , who’s now a professor at the University of Lancaster in the UK. Details of the project can be found at http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~eamde
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Monday, November 02, 2009 1:37 PM

Extending UML designers in VS2010 Beta2

As mentioned in this post , the UML designers in VS2010 Ultimate now come with a set of APIs that makes them easy to extend. I see that Peter Provost has now posted the first of a series of articles (going by the title of this one) explaining how to get
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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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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 8:31 PM

VS2010 Beta2 Available, Links to posts on Arch Tools in Beta2

VS2010 Beta2 is available for download . Install Ultimate and you’ll be able to give the architecture tools a spin, which have been much improved since Beta1. In particular, a lot of work has been put into making it easy to extend the UML designers using
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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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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 5:47 PM

Pedro on the Code Generation Conference

Pedro Molina has blogged about his experience at the code generation conference in Cambridge. Pedro was one of the folks with whom I had some great discussions, and his commentary on the conference is well worth reading.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 1:48 PM

So what is a DSL anyway?

The term Domain Specific Language (DSL) is a popular buzz-word at the moment. If you look at wikipedia you’ll see the following definition: “In software development , a domain-specific language ( DSL ) is a programming language or specification language
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 1:22 PM

More from Code Generation 2009

Now I’m back from the conference, here’s an update on my first report . Some highlights for me during the rest of the conference were: Seeing the second part of the joint keynote by Markus Völter and Steven Kelly, where they got to discuss views, cross-references
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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 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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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 10:49 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
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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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