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Custom code junkies beware - DSL Inertia
In his response to my last post, Steven said "Microsoft's focus on IDE integration seems to be...
Author: GarethJones Date: 04/04/2006
Mort and glory
It's been an age since I blogged. As has been noted, we've slipped a bit and this might have...
Author: GarethJones Date: 04/04/2006
Another T4 Editor Posted for DSL Tools and GAT users
As well as the original T4 colourizer posted by Modelisense, there's now a new kid on the block from...
Author: GarethJones Date: 03/05/2006
Integration across the development tool spectrum
I enjoy my occasional jousts with Steven Kelly from one of our competitors, so I had to respond to...
Author: GarethJones Date: 02/25/2006
Fixes for two DSL Tools bugs
Not many posts from me at present - we're heads down into our last coding milestone for V1. Just...
Author: GarethJones Date: 02/24/2006
February CTP of DSL Tools is live in the Visual Studio 2005 SDK February 2006 CTP
I'm pleased to announce that DSL Tools is fully integrated into the February 2006 CTP of the Visual...
Author: GarethJones Date: 02/04/2006
Slides from UK Architect Forum on Software Factories
Robert asked if there were downloads for the recent Architect Forum on Software Factories run by...
Author: GarethJones Date: 01/13/2006
Computer says ...
OK, so this is a bit of a gimmick, but the geek in me couldn't resist it (I made some excuse to...
Author: GarethJones Date: 01/13/2006
Debugging T4 Text Templates
People often ask me about the best way to debug T4 templates. This topic is covered in our new...
Author: GarethJones Date: 01/09/2006
First CTP of DSL Tools Documentation
I'm pleased to say that thanks to our stirling User Education team, we've now got a first CTP of...
Author: GarethJones Date: 12/30/2005
Two really different types of API
Steven makes a really interesting reply to my question about API extension in his company's tool....
Author: GarethJones Date: 12/19/2005
Pseudomodels and intent
Wow - easily the most techy blog title I've ever had… Harry has an interesting concept of...
Author: GarethJones Date: 12/19/2005
New DSL Tools Samples and the VS SDK
As Stuart notes, there is a new update to our samples package available.Alan did most of the work to...
Author: GarethJones Date: 12/13/2005
Just a few places left at UK Software Factories event on Friday
There are just a few places left at this event. Solution Architect Forum: Defining, Building and...
Author: GarethJones Date: 12/07/2005
Imprecise Models and Killing Hippies
You'll gather by now from the torrent of posts (well, a relative torrent for me) that I'm catching...
Author: GarethJones Date: 12/07/2005
Fundamentally open approach to Domain Specific Tooling
My last post on our deployment tools and Rob's comments on them suddenly seemed to me to be a case...
Author: GarethJones Date: 12/06/2005
DSL Tools Deployment - Domain-specific WiX or a DSL?
None other than Rob Mensching himself, the godfather of WiX, is kind enough to mention our new...
Author: GarethJones Date: 12/06/2005
Welcome George
No sooner have we released the latest CTP then we have another blogger online talking about a T4...
Author: GarethJones Date: 12/06/2005
November CTP Launches
I'm extremely pleased to say that (as the others have noted) the November CTP of DSL Tools for the...
Author: GarethJones Date: 12/06/2005
Keyboard shortcuts for navigation on the DSL design surface
I was just dealing with an issue raised on our MSDN Product Feedback center and I realized it might...
Author: GarethJones Date: 11/16/2005
DSL Tools at the Visual Studio 2005 Launch in Sweden November 22nd
OK, so that was a bit of a sucker title. To be more accurate, I'll be at the Visual Studio 2005...
Author: GarethJones Date: 11/15/2005
Future Directions in Modeling Tools (TLN311)
Slightly old news I know, but the PDC 2005 breakouts are now posted on the web both as PPTs,...
Author: GarethJones Date: 11/15/2005
Visual Studio SDK 2005 is live
Congratulations to the VS SDK team on shipping. As various of the team have pointed out, we'll...
Author: GarethJones Date: 11/03/2005
Virtual Lab - try DSL Tools without even installing them!
Rob Caron has the skinny (as usual). You can now try out a virtual lab session with the DSL Tools...
Author: GarethJones Date: 11/01/2005
New samples posted for Domain Specific Languages Tools September CTP
Alan has just posted a whole bunch of code customization samples to work against the September CTP...
Author: GarethJones Date: 10/19/2005
DSL Tools Storytellers
Pedro points out a https://blogs.msdn.com/federaldev/archive/category/11117.aspx by David on the US...
Author: GarethJones Date: 10/13/2005
Visual Studio Team System Unit Testing Just Rocks
I've just started dogfooding the Unit Testing in VSTS and it has totally blown me away. In fairness,...
Author: GarethJones Date: 10/05/2005
Ignore this test post
I try not to do this, but I'm tracking down an issue with my client software. Normal service will be...
Author: GarethJones Date: 09/28/2005
Changes to ModelingTextTransformation in September CTP of DSL Tools for Visual Studio
(or how I learned to love loading multiple models in the same T4 template and stop worrying…) A...
Author: GarethJones Date: 09/26/2005
T4 Syntax for DSL Tools
I've been fielding questions about the syntax of our Text Templating technology (whose codename is...
Author: GarethJones Date: 09/26/2005
Interesting paper on Patterns of Model-Driven Software Development
Ian Wij's blog brought this to my attention. There's a bunch of interesting observations in this...
Author: GarethJones Date: 09/21/2005
Breaking changes to T4 Text Templating in the September DSL Tools CTP
We've made a couple of breaking changes to the interfaces exposed by our text templating engine in...
Author: GarethJones Date: 09/20/2005
September 2005 CTP of DSL Tools for Visual Studio Beta2 Released
I'm happy to say that we've released our latest CTP, containing a lot of bug fixes and three...
Author: GarethJones Date: 09/20/2005
Changing the file extension in a Domain Specific Language Tools Designer
I recently changed the file extensions in a couple of our Domain Specific Language designers and...
Author: GarethJones Date: 09/05/2005
Some UI Design craft
From simplegeek Jan Mikovsky is blogging on UI design craft… Subscribed.
Author: GarethJones Date: 09/05/2005
Old New Blogging Client: CSBlogger
I've just picked up a new version of an old favourite blogging client, CSBlogger by our own...
Author: GarethJones Date: 08/08/2005
Graduate Hiring for Microsoft in the UK
As Stuart points out, we're hiring. We're looking for newly graduated students to come and work as...
Author: GarethJones Date: 08/08/2005
TechEd Europe 2005 Personal Thoughts
On a more personal note, I had a couple of intense experiences during the week that have given me...
Author: GarethJones Date: 07/18/2005
TechEd Europe 2005 DSLs and Software Factories Thoughts
TechEd Europe 2005 DSLs/Software Factories Thoughts Having had time to mull over this year's TechEd...
Author: GarethJones Date: 07/18/2005
Transcript of DSL Tools Web Chat
The transcript of our web chat on the subject of DSL Tools in Visual Studio 2005 is now...
Author: GarethJones Date: 07/01/2005
DSL Tools at Tech-Ed Europe
Steve Cook, Annie Matthewman and I will be hosting a number of sessions at Tech-Ed Europe on DSL...
Author: GarethJones Date: 06/15/2005
Post Tech-Ed Chat
The folks who were at Tech-Ed US from the DSL Tools team and its sister teams, Class Designer and...
Author: GarethJones Date: 06/13/2005
Beta1 -> Beta2 Uninstallation Order
Something to note for those of you who haven't yet migrated from the March CTP to the May CTP of the...
Author: GarethJones Date: 06/06/2005
Update 1 to the DSL Tools May 2005 Migration Guide
Here's a little titbit that got past us when we were putting together the migraton guide from the...
Author: GarethJones Date: 06/01/2005
Update to Text Templating syntax for May 2005 CTP
In April, I posted a summary of the syntax for the code generation engine supplied with the DSL...
Author: GarethJones Date: 06/01/2005
May 2005 CTP of DSL Tools for Visual Studio Beta2 Released
I'm very pleased to say we've released our first version of the DSL Tools that works with Visual...
Author: GarethJones Date: 05/29/2005
Coopetition
Both my colleague Alan Cameron Wills and Steven Kelly from our esteemed competitor MetaCase have...
Author: GarethJones Date: 05/24/2005
Chat Reminder
Just a reminder that we have a DSL Tools web chat this Tuesday at 5PM UK Time, 9AM Pacific Time....
Author: GarethJones Date: 05/22/2005
Go Go Gadget GAT
The fine folks over at the Patterns and Practices group have now got their GAT workshop up and...
Author: GarethJones Date: 05/13/2005