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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...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 02/07/2008
Great posting on distributed development
One of my colleagues (thanks Blair) pointed me at this:...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 02/07/2008
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...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 12/10/2007
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...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 12/05/2007
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...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 12/05/2007
Help with using the VS2008 Shell
Pablo has written a series of posts that should be of help to anyone thinking of hosting their...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 11/27/2007
Three things to know when using Visual Studio 2008 DSL Tools
In preparing for my presentation at TechEd, I got a chance to try out a couple of new things with...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 11/22/2007
What's new for DSL Tools in VS2008 / VS2008 SDK
VS2008 and VS2008 SDK have just shipped. The announcement about the SDK over on the VSX blog didn't...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 11/22/2007
DSL Tools beyond VS2008
I promised a while ago to publish a roadmap for what we're doing with DSL Tools, post VS2008. Now...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 11/22/2007
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...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 09/26/2007
Speaking at TechEd Europe in Barcelona
I'm speaking at TechEd Europe in Barcelona on DSL Tools. Go here and look me up under the list of...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 09/25/2007
What future for DSL Tools?
I've recently received a number of questions about DSL Tools, making me realize that our messaging...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 09/25/2007
Visual Studio Ecosystem team is hiring
See Gareth's post for details.
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 09/07/2007
Graphical design of cuncurrent applications
I was sent email by Alastair McKeeman from Connective Logic Systems, a UK based company. They've...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 09/07/2007
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...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 09/07/2007
Presentation from DevDays 2007 in Amsterdam now available
As mentioned in this earlier blog post:...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 08/16/2007
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...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 06/01/2007
Cool shapes with DSL Tools
Olaf has an interesting post on how you can use fonts as shapes in a DSL Tool using a little bit of...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 06/01/2007
Extending the capabilities of DSL Tools
In my most recent post, I mentioned that the DSL Editor powertoy shows how you can exploit the...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 05/22/2007
Next milestone of DSL Editor powertoy reached
Jezz has just announced the release of the next milestone in this project. To quote: <quote>We...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 05/21/2007
Steven Kelly bashing us again
I see that Steven is having another go at Microsoft's DSL Tools. Not for the first time, my...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 05/21/2007
Published at last...
Our book on DSL Tools is now available. Available at amazon and other online stores. You can also...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 05/21/2007
Orcas version of DSL Tools now available
A version of the VS SDK (download from https://www.vsipmembers.com/), which includes DSL Tools, is...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 05/01/2007
Different ways of interacting with a DSL
There's a nice post from Steven Kelly which contrasts different ways of interacting with a DSL in a...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 03/09/2007
Refresh of DSL Tools shipped in VS2005 SDK V4
Gareth has the low-down:...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 03/05/2007
DSL Tools V1 has shipped!
Yes it's true - we've shipped! The DSL Tools web pages will be updated shortly, with more details...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 09/15/2006
DSL Tools documentation now available on MSDN...
..at the link https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa396774.aspx This is actually the...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 09/11/2006
DSL Tools V1 release - latest news
Having just returned from vacation, I thought I'd update folks about the V1 release of DSL Tools....
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 08/31/2006
Storyboarding tool integrated with team system
A while back I posted about how useful I find storyboards in the specification process. Now there's...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 08/16/2006
Jos Warmer on small models
Here is a great post from Jos Warmer over on the DSL Tools forum. He makes some good arguments....
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 06/16/2006
New dsl definition format
Those of you who have downloaded the June CTP of DSL Tools will, by now, be aware of quite a few...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 06/12/2006
DLinq Designer
Goto https://msdn.microsoft.com/data/ref/linq/ and download the latest CTP of LINQ. There you'll find...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 06/12/2006
Sam has started blogging
Sam Guckenheimer has started blogging - https://blogs.msdn.com/sam/ Sam is the chief product planner...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 06/12/2006
June CTP of DSL Tools now available
I haven't written a blog entry for a while, and the reason is that I've been very busy working on...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 06/01/2006
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...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 03/21/2006
Japanese translation of Software Factories book
Another belated announcement. The Japanase translation of the Software Factories book is now...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 02/10/2006
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...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 02/10/2006
Seven stages of models
There aren't really seven, but it makes for a good title (look up "seven stages shakespeare" if...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 12/22/2005
The ideal tool...
Just noticed this little nugget over on Steven's blog at MetaCase (just gloss over the blatant...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 12/22/2005
DSL tools samples download now available
Like buses, you wait a while then two come at once. That's right, just a week after we released the...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 12/13/2005
The creator of WiX blogs about the deployment feature in the new release of DSL Tools
In the latest release of DSL Tools we make use of the WiX toolset to create MSIs. Rob Mensching, the...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 12/06/2005
New release of DSL Tools available
Our next release of DSL Tools is now available. This release works with the final released version...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 12/05/2005
Automating tedious tasks (2)
In my last entry I talked about how to go about automating tedious tasks for developers. Of course,...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 12/04/2005
Automating tedious tasks
I've just added a new byline to my blog: automating tedious tasks. A complaint often levelled at...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 12/04/2005
Using VSTS with Excel for task tracking
I've had reason recently to use the task tracking features in Visual Studio Team System. We've been...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 11/11/2005
Writing a book
I see that Steve has let the cat of the bag - we (that is Steve, Alan, Gareth and myself) are...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 11/04/2005
DSL Tools with Visual Studio 2005 RTM
Now that Visual Studio 2005 has been released to manufacture (RTM), folks are asking us when to...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 11/02/2005
VS Team System Virtual Labs
You can now try out DSL Tools and other aspects of Visual Studio Team System, without going to the...
Author: Stuart Kent - Microsoft Date: 11/02/2005