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GarethJ's WebLog - OneNote API musings
Upcoming DSL Tools Chat
We're hosting a web chat with members of the DSL Tools team in a couple of weeks. Using the...
Author: GarethJones Date: 05/10/2005
SPA 2005
Along with my colleague Alan Wills, I recently had the privilege of co-hosting a workshop on DSL...
Author: GarethJones Date: 05/04/2005
Bug bashing
Wow, I don't seem to have blogged for a long time. We're pretty busy right now baking our next DSL...
Author: GarethJones Date: 04/29/2005
Quick summary of current DSL Tools text templating syntax
Having mentioned it last time and had someone ask in the newsgroup I thought it would be a good idea...
Author: GarethJones Date: 04/06/2005
What's coming next? Text templating improvements.
Stuart has a great post on what's around the corner in DSL Tools world. Particularly important from...
Author: GarethJones Date: 03/22/2005
Adding a "New item" in a DSL Tools target designer
We've had some comment on our newsgroup about an issue with the "Add new item" functionality in a...
Author: GarethJones Date: 03/15/2005
New Release of the DSL Tools for Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1
I'm very happy to announce that we've just shipped a new release of the DSL Tools. You can download...
Author: GarethJones Date: 03/09/2005
Pedro (re)joins the team.
Pedro Silva is coming back to work with us as a developer on the DSL Tools. Welcome Back Pedro.
Author: GarethJones Date: 03/08/2005
Chris on Shared Sessions in OneNote
Chris Pratley has a great post on the way the OneNote team use the shared sessions feature that they...
Author: GarethJones Date: 02/23/2005
Just what IS a DSL Tools designer?
Recently, an anonymous participant in our newsgroup posted to ask about building code in the...
Author: GarethJones Date: 02/09/2005
Stress-driven development
Grady Booch notes a great post by ckw on Stress-driven development. I've long been an advocate of...
Author: GarethJones Date: 02/01/2005
Chatvertisement
Just a reminder that my immediate colleagues in the Visual Studio Class Designer team have a...
Author: GarethJones Date: 02/01/2005
December DSL Tools CTP requires Visual C# and Visual C++
One issue people are finding with the December CTP is that it requires that you choose both Visual...
Author: GarethJones Date: 01/18/2005
Walkthroughs of the December Domain Specific Tools CTP
Three new walkthroughs are now available as a zip file.
Author: GarethJones Date: 01/14/2005
DSL Tools tip #2: When the wizard won't run
One or two people are coming across this gotcha, so I thought I'd post. In order for the Domain...
Author: GarethJones Date: 01/05/2005
DSL Tools tip: Open a dmd file with all/no properties visible
In the December release, you can choose whether the drop-down sheets for value properties on domain...
Author: GarethJones Date: 01/05/2005
If you are experiencing problems converting your IMS files to DMD…
<blush>Looks like a bugette crept into the installer for our December release that stops the...
Author: GarethJones Date: 01/05/2005
Another domain model example
ChrisM has an example of using our Domain Model Designer on his blog and promises more with our new...
Author: GarethJones Date: 12/21/2004
Another one of the team online
Jack Greenfield, an architect in the same group as myself and the other DSL guys has been seduced by...
Author: GarethJones Date: 12/21/2004
December release of DSL Tools ships
You can now download the latest Community Technical Preview of our Domain Specific Language Tools...
Author: GarethJones Date: 12/20/2004
DSL Tools: Look and (soon) feel
We're really close now with our new release - with luck, you should be able to get your hands on it...
Author: GarethJones Date: 12/16/2004
When dragging is a big drag
Nicholas Allen wrote to me to comment on a piece of UI in our October CTP: I'm trying out putting an...
Author: GarethJones Date: 12/15/2004
MSDN2 from your desktop
Simon Guest has a great post on how to use the new MSN toolbar to shortcut straight into the MSDN2...
Author: GarethJones Date: 12/15/2004
Heads up: Upcoming DSL Tools CTP - file format changes
We're working to get our next Community Technical Preview shipped as soon as ever possible now. I...
Author: GarethJones Date: 12/15/2004
Bug us
You can now submit bugs and suggestions about the DSL Tools to our team through the magic of...
Author: GarethJones Date: 12/10/2004
The mysterious code generator in our October CTP
In our newsgroup, Bill asked what the deal was with the code generation that we expose via the...
Author: GarethJones Date: 12/08/2004
Language-oriented or Metadata-driven?
Sergey Dmitriev has a great article on what he, and others, have called Language Oriented...
Author: GarethJones Date: 11/30/2004
Using our newsgroup with an nntp client
We've set up a newsgroup for discussion of our DSL Tools -...
Author: GarethJones Date: 11/10/2004
Get hold of the bits…
You can find my team's MSDN site here and download the first technical preview of our toolset here....
Author: GarethJones Date: 11/08/2004
Snapshots of our toolset and its output
The ever-up-to-the-minute Harry has a couple of snapshots of the first design experience that's part...
Author: GarethJones Date: 10/27/2004
Blog-related sites that this site is registered with...
I'll keep this article vaguely up to date with the listing and aggregation services that I register...
Author: GarethJones Date: 10/27/2004
We're out in the open - what tools are you going to build?
Finally we've announced the toolset that we're building and we're all off the leash to talk rather...
Author: GarethJones Date: 10/27/2004
Red is for tomatoes, green is for peppers, blue is for ... giraffes?
In my last post, I talked about a couple of the ways I commonly use coloured pens on the...
Author: GarethJones Date: 10/22/2004
On coloured pens
I've been mulling over some more of the things that make a whiteboard so useable to me and how some...
Author: GarethJones Date: 10/20/2004
On coming to depend on the readability of managed code
Matt has a great post over at https://blogs.msdn.com/mattwar/archive/2004/09/17/230941.aspx. I know...
Author: GarethJones Date: 10/07/2004
Heap sample: Wrapping up
I thought I should wrap up my posts about the generic heap sample that I put together with a quick...
Author: GarethJones Date: 10/05/2004
Heap Sample: Conversion of enumeration code to use C# iterators
When I started, I thought that this might be a hairy part of the problem, but it turned out to be...
Author: GarethJones Date: 10/05/2004
Delegate methods on the Heap class
I shamelessly copied the delegate methods on my heap class from those on List. Delegate methods...
Author: GarethJones Date: 10/05/2004
Generic collections: Decisions around type support for your generic parameters
Originally in my heap class, null was a special value. The type of the heap was always object and so...
Author: GarethJones Date: 10/05/2004
Tracepoints Rock
Visual Studio 2005 has added a feature called Tracepoints and currently it's easily my favourite of...
Author: GarethJones Date: 08/17/2004
Comparing ICollection and ICollection
When examining the ICollection<T> interface prior to implementing on my Heap class, I was...
Author: GarethJones Date: 08/17/2004
Comments now moderated
Comments on my blog are now moderated, so don't be surprised if you submit one and it doesn't appear...
Author: GarethJones Date: 08/11/2004
Heap Sample: Comparing the new collection classes with the old
The first step in updating the Heap class to Heap<T> was to take a look at the new collections...
Author: GarethJones Date: 08/02/2004
More modeling blogs
Several colleagues from my team are also running modeling-related blogs: Keith Short...
Author: GarethJones Date: 07/13/2004
Modeling User Experiences, APIs and Tools
Hi, I'm Gareth Jones and I'm a developer in the architect team within the Visual Studio Team System...
Author: GarethJones Date: 07/12/2004