Tuesday, September 13, 2005 - Posts
One of the first things that you notice when you start working with the DSL Toolkit is that you have to do the synchronization between the Domain Model Definition and the Designer Definition files (.dsldm and .dsldd respectively) MANUALLY. At this time there is no support from Microsoft for doing this automatically and it is tedious work, believe me...
But Modelisoft has created an excellent Visual Studio 2005 addin for doing this synchronization. So it is a “Must have“ tool when dealing with the DSL Toolkit
Pablo
If you want a starting point to begin learning about DSL implementations using Whidbey and DSL Toolkit, you need to check the following link:
http://www.clipcode.biz/workshops/dsl.html
Pablo
I have done some reading on Software Factories, and I believe that Microsoft's Software Factories initiative is going to grow a lot. DSL, GAT and Code Generation are all related subjects to this initiative.
So I started playing with DSL, but first I downloaded all the necessary bits and installed them:
You have to download the DSL Toolkit and the Visual Studio 2005 SDK for Beta 2 (VSIP).
Requirements:
Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2
Basically I will create a prototype to test integration with GAT.
To be continued...
Useful Links:
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/teamsystem/workshop/sf/default.aspx
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/teamsystem/workshop/dsltools/default.aspx
http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/DomainSpecificLanguage.html
http://martinfowler.com/articles/languageWorkbench.html
Related Reading:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471202843/qid=1126644611/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-3178602-7164819?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
In GAT, you specify the command bar that you want a command to appear, in the following manner:
<CommandBar Name="Project" />
In Whidbey, web projects no longer use the C#/VB project systems.
Because of that, if you want to add a command to the bar you have to use the following GUID for a webproject:
<CommandBar ID="1136" Guid="d309f791-903f-11d0-9efc-00a0c911004f"/>
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