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Keyvan writes on eXtensibility
I just found Keyvan Nayyeri's blog. He's got some great articles on Visual Studio eXtensibility and...
Author: GarethJones Date: 09/01/2007
Catching up
I've obviously been coding in a dark cell too much of late as there are a few things I've just...
Author: GarethJones Date: 08/28/2007
Transforming DSL Setup T4 templates from the command line
With DSL Tools, we supply a tool called TextTransform.exe to run the T4 text templating engine from...
Author: GarethJones Date: 08/14/2007
Stop work everyone, it's time to check in...
I had to chuckle. Steven Kelly over at MetaCase often gives us a hard time over the fact that DSL...
Author: GarethJones Date: 07/08/2007
Dr. Dobb's Evolves a DSL
The esteemed Dr.Dobb's portal has an excerpt of Chapter 11 of our book on evolving DSLs and making...
Author: GarethJones Date: 07/08/2007
Book excerpt on TheServerSide
Those nice chaps over at TheServerSide.net have posted an excerpt from our book. Enjoy.
Author: GarethJones Date: 07/08/2007
Path editor details for latest Orcas DSL Tools CTP
Over on the Team Architect blog, Duncan Pocklington discusses the way cool new path editor UI in...
Author: GarethJones Date: 06/08/2007
Tech-Ed Day Three: Candid Camera
Ken Levy, the VSX community PM managed to catch me with his rinky-dinky video camera and we had a...
Author: GarethJones Date: 06/08/2007
TechEd Day One - Visual Studio 2008 Shell
Just woken up after a great first day at Tech-Ed. Excellent to see full houses and folks crammed in...
Author: GarethJones Date: 06/05/2007
New CTP Of Visual Studio SDK for Orcas
Lots of fun stuff this week. As announced over on the VSX blog, there's a new CTP of the Visual...
Author: GarethJones Date: 06/05/2007
Next release of the DSL Editor PowerToy
While I'm linking to Jezz, I should mention that he has a groovy new release of the powertoy...
Author: GarethJones Date: 05/29/2007
Closet Cloggies
Apparently, there's a very hush-hush organization forming over in the Netherlands. The Secret Dutch...
Author: GarethJones Date: 05/29/2007
DSL Book Online
As Steve points out, our book has now gone to press - you should be able to have a copy in your...
Author: GarethJones Date: 05/17/2007
Aaron on VSCT
Aaron Marten from the VS SDK team has a couple of posts on the new VSCT technology that replaces CTC...
Author: GarethJones Date: 05/16/2007
Team Architect Blog powers ahead
Technorati Tags: vsts, dsl tools, team architect, powertoy, power tool, software visualizationSuhail...
Author: GarethJones Date: 05/14/2007
First CTP of DSL Tools for Orcas Beta1
As announced over on James' blog we've just released a CTP of DSL Tools that works on Visual Studio...
Author: GarethJones Date: 04/30/2007
DSL Editor PowerToy
Jezz has just released the first milestone of the DSL Editor PowerToy. This nifty DSL Tools add-on...
Author: GarethJones Date: 03/15/2007
Visual Studio SDK V4 and DSL Tools Update is released
As announced over on the VS ecosystem blog, the V4 version of the Visual Studio SDK has just...
Author: GarethJones Date: 03/02/2007
How to take charge of DSL Tools swimlane ordering
In a question on our forum, Michael Ruck asks: I have the following situation: A neural network...
Author: GarethJones Date: 02/22/2007
Lutz Roeder's Reflector 5.0
Essential tool - essential update. Nuff said. Link to Marquee de Sells: Chris's insight outlet
Author: GarethJones Date: 02/21/2007
Announcing Designer Integration PowerToy
We've just released a powertoy for the DSL tools that provides some basic functionality for...
Author: GarethJones Date: 02/15/2007
StoreViewer - a hidden gem
Well, maybe not exactly hidden, but certainly not well-known. Tucked away in the...
Author: GarethJones Date: 02/15/2007
Fame at last
Amazon has now got a listing for our upcoming book: Domain Specific Development With Visual Studio...
Author: GarethJones Date: 02/14/2007
Built with DSL Tools: Tangible Architect
As Steve pointed out, here's another product based on DSL Tools technology. From the Tangible web...
Author: GarethJones Date: 01/30/2007
Japanese DSL Whitepapers
The Microsoft Japan architect team has published three DSL Tools whitepapers which you can find...
Author: GarethJones Date: 01/02/2007
Vive La France
There is a vibrant French language DSL Tools community over at...
Author: GarethJones Date: 12/15/2006
Visual Studio Service Pack 1 and December VS SDK CTP Released
As Soma announces, service pack 1 for Visual Studio 2005 with a lot of bug fixes and integrated WAP...
Author: GarethJones Date: 12/15/2006
Chimp on templates
Martijn over at Software Chimps has a good post on DSL(/M) :-) templates and why they aren't a good...
Author: GarethJones Date: 11/30/2006
Built with DSL Tools: Himalia Guilder
Another neat application of DSL tools V1 (with a custom VS SDK project system to boot) in the...
Author: GarethJones Date: 11/22/2006
Feedburner
Just a quick note to say that I've switched my RSS feed to indirect via FeedBurner so I can get some...
Author: GarethJones Date: 10/06/2006
Struggling to find the way in?
Larry O'Brien is struggling to find his way in to our toolset and he's not finding our docs very...
Author: GarethJones Date: 10/06/2006
Built with DSL Tools: ActiveWriter
I just came across another product based on the DSL Tools. It's called ActiveWriter and it's an...
Author: GarethJones Date: 10/04/2006
Using a non-string property as an element name
By default, DSL Tools V1 uses domain properties of type "string" as names for its elements. If you...
Author: GarethJones Date: 09/29/2006
Upgrade installer bug in our DSL Tools V1 release for TextTemplating
Seems we let a side-by-side upgrade case slip by in our V1 release process; so you can end up with...
Author: GarethJones Date: 09/28/2006
DSL Tools V1 Released
We've Shipped! The VS2005 SDK V3 containing DSL Tools V1, can be downloaded from...
Author: GarethJones Date: 09/15/2006
DSL Tools quietness
It's probably a bit quiet round here, on blogs and on our forum as we're all very heads down...
Author: GarethJones Date: 08/01/2006
Sandcastle - Create MSDN-style documentation for your .Net assemblies
I see that a CTP of Sandcastle has just been launched. From their blog: "Enabling managed class...
Author: GarethJones Date: 08/01/2006
Job Description now up on the Microsoft jobs site
Just a quick update. The formal job descriptions for the positions we have open in Cambridge are now...
Author: GarethJones Date: 07/17/2006
Software Factories Platform job vacancies in Cambridge
It's time to build out our dev team in Cambridge to help bring together assets like DSL Tools and...
Author: GarethJones Date: 07/07/2006
Sad news - Bill to leave after two years
Yes, it's true. The BBC confirmed yesterday that Billie Piper is to leave Dr Who at the end of a two...
Author: GarethJones Date: 06/16/2006
VS 2005 Xml Editor Coolness
Kzu has a top tip for the Xml Editor in Visual Studio 2005. F12 for “Go to definition” works in...
Author: GarethJones Date: 06/12/2006
Monkey Business
Martijn, asks on his delightfully-named Software Chimps site: I wonder therefore why Microsoft has...
Author: GarethJones Date: 06/08/2006
Caching in latest T4 drop
Adam Miller has been using our T4 engine and has a question about caching... A caching question:...
Author: GarethJones Date: 06/05/2006
June 2006 CTP of DSL Tools ships
I'm on a short post-ship vacation at the moment so just a quick note. As Stuartannounced, we've...
Author: GarethJones Date: 06/02/2006
Change of scene
I'm just packing up after a three week stint working in Redmond instead of my usual base in...
Author: GarethJones Date: 05/12/2006