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Domain Model for Arrival Management by Dagijoana
Hello, I am starting to build a domain model for the domain of arrival management for an air traf...
New Development by jccondor
We have an existing application, which has to be rebuilt from the ground up. Most of the use-cases a...
Code Generation 2009 Dates and Venue Finalized by Mark Dalgarno
The dates and venue for next year's Code Generation 2009 event have now been finalized. The confe...
Call for Speakers - Code Generation 2008 by Mark Dalgarno
With an emphasis on providing practical advice, Code Generation 2008 is the ideal opportunity for ar...
Interesting thread on code generation by martin
Tom Hollander started an interesteding thread on code generation. Ho points out challenge of custom...
Recent Factory Blogs & Feeds  
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Daniel Cazzulino
XmlSerializerFactory caching issues and leaks

You'd think that after the serious leaks people was hitting with the XmlSerializer, the "new" (in .NET 2.0!!! but which many seem to forget about, just like AVOID doing 11/13/2008 12:42:32 PM

Gareth Jones
New DSL Tools lab

Jean-Marc has just released a complete walkthrough of DSL Tools for Visual Studio 2008 a...

11/11/2008 1:51:45 PM
Stuart Kent
DSL Tools and Oslo

The Oslo modeling platform was announced at Microsoft's PDC and we've been asked by a number of customers what the relationship is between DSL Tools and Oslo. So I thought it would be worth clearing the air on this. Keith Sh...

11/6/2008 6:07:26 PM
Steve Cook
New features for DSL Tools in Visual Studio 2010
Stuart has blogged about the new features expected in DSL Tools in VS 2010.  There's plenty new there: DSL libraries, DSL extensib...
11/5/2008 10:16:00 AM
Jim Lavin
Posted: Industry Vertical Episode 001
I am proud to present the first episode of Industry Vertical the twice monthly net cast about industrializing software development with Software Factories, Guidance Automation and Domain Specific Languages at http://tinyurl.com/6gjlgl. This episode starts out with the basics of Software Factories and trys to answer the question "What is a Software ...
11/4/2008 6:06:04 AM
Edward Bakker
Blueprints October CTP released

Those of you interested in software factories should check out the new Blueprints Manger and Sample Blueprint which were released on the 11/3/2008 4:04:16 PM

Steven Kelly
Two DSM talks in Cambridge UK, 20th Nov 08

I've been invited to speak at a couple of events in Cambridge, UK, on 20th November. You can see the full details and register at the event links below, but here's a quick overview.

The first talk is to the Cambridge Wireless Software SIG...

11/3/2008 8:36:18 AM
Clemens Reijnen
Three Model Archetypes for Oslo…

It took me several days and a lot of discussions at the PDC to understand the value of “Oslo” and still didn’t get it after the PDC. But, now finally after watching all the session’s / video’s, walking almost all the walkthroughs and after 11/2/2008 4:37:50 PM

Tom Hollander
Speaking at WDNUG

It’s been a little while since I’ve presented at a public forum – particularly since I missed TechEd Australia after it clashed with my Great Barrier Reef holiday. However this is all going to change with my next live appearance in the centre of the known universe, Wollongong! More specifical...

10/9/2008 10:56:12 PM
Pablo Galiano
How do I create a ModelElement via API

My eighteenth How do I is up.

Scenario

Let's say that we start from the Minimal Language DSL template and we have an ExampleElement domain class that has a Name domain property with the Is Element Name flag set to true.

Because it has the IsElementName flag, every time that we create a ExampleElemen...

9/30/2008 2:17:39 AM
Marcel de Vries
Announcing: Team System Web Access Translation Project

Brian Harry’s announced this a while ago on his blog (here) and now the time is there to give you the first pointers t...

7/30/2008 3:14:00 PM
IntoFactories.NET
GAT/GAX - Creating a guidance package
In this post we will start of with our Domain Driven Design Software Factory, the first step is obviously creating the package itself. But before we commence, I need to give some credits to my former colleague Jelle Druyts as this post is blatant plagiarism of his blog post from back in the year 2006 … [...]
6/14/2008 6:21:46 AM
Vincent Hoogendoorn
Software Factories 2.0 - Microsoft’s larger Software Factories Initiative. Will you be a Factories 2.0 Company?
In the most significant post on factories to come out of Microsoft in a long time, Jack Greenfield unveils Software Factories 2.0. The software factories initiative has been repositioned within Microsoft to address a larger scope: “Perhaps the most significant change is that the leadership of the Software Factory Initiative has moved from the...
6/9/2008 2:24:28 AM
Jack Greenfield
Software Factories Focus Groups at Tech Ed 2008 in Orlando

Michael Lehman, creator of two factory based initiative...

6/5/2008 6:25:00 PM
Jezz Santos
We're Back

Apologies', I've been somewhat away from the blogsphere for some time, and been meaning to get back into it. Something like 'writer's block' has prevented that, so I am hoping to will that away presently. This first one 'back' has been very hard to frame, since there has been much to talk about. (I have the willingness, just not the capacity to ...

5/30/2008 6:07:10 PM
Steve Eadie
wow what a day

so yesterday I received some great news, I have been awarded an MVP for Team System..... how do I feel? awesome.....

but I got this through meeting and learning from the most amazing individuals both in my company and inside Microsoft, working with these people has been the most amazing ride... so I'm going to give thanks to my colleague...

4/2/2008 6:10:05 AM
Don Smith
Using MessageContracts and DataContracts

Users of the Service Factory often ask about the rationale behind the required use of MessageContracts even though the use of MessageContracts aren't mandated by WCF. I've answered this question in other venues, but it seemed like a good thing to put here in c...

3/10/2008 8:10:00 PM
Leonardo Vernazza
Bad Changes In The New GMail Version

Google has launched a new version of GMail with some good new features.  However, what really surprised me were the very bad changes in the user interface of the contacts "subsystem". Google has a very deserved prestige in providing dead simple and very well designed user interfaces....

12/9/2007 11:15:00 AM
Wojtek Kozaczynski
Code Generators: when can you live with them?

Tom Hollander just posted a note Code Generators: Can't live with them, can't live without them. His question is really about the ROI on developing code generators. Most of the comments, however, are ab...

11/18/2007 3:04:32 PM
Erik Gunvaldson
Packaging & Building Software Factories - by Jezz Santos

For those practitioners who are building software factories on our platform today I would like to direct you towards a blog entry by Jezz Santos: See here: http://blogs....

10/30/2007 1:09:00 PM
Recent VSX Blogs & Feeds  
Steven Kelly
DSL Tools Lab shows pain of constraints in C#

Microsoft have a new DSL Tools Lab for beginners to learn how to use DSL Tools in one day....

11/12/2008 8:06:46 AM
Gareth Jones
DSL 2010 Feature Dives: T4 Preprocessing - Part Two - Basic Design

 

Lat time we looked at the "WHy" of T4 preprocessing - now let's look at an overview of the how.

To explain the new features, it's helpful to have a look at th...

11/11/2008 5:38:00 PM
Visual Studio Ecosystem
DSL Tools Lab is now on Code Gallery

We've received feedback that there's sometime not enough or too much information out there for learning how to extend Visual Studio.  One of the ways we want to help is to start cons...

11/10/2008 10:50:00 AM
Stuart Kent
Teach yourself DSL Tools

Jean-Marc has just posted a lab on code gallery, which provides a fully worked, step-by-step example of creating a DSL from scratch. If...

11/10/2008 5:33:43 AM
James Lau
After the Long Silence…

I have finally decided to change the name of my blog after radio silence for many weeks. The reason that I haven’t been blogging is that I have moved to a new team within Microsoft. In my new role,...

11/7/2008 6:12:05 PM
Steve Cook
New features for DSL Tools in Visual Studio 2010
11/5/2008 10:16:00 AM
Aaron Marten
Extension Manager

One of the new features we plan on shipping for VS 2010 that I've been heads down on for the past few months is the "Extension Manager". I'll be posting more details about it here over th...

11/4/2008 6:40:40 AM
Quan To
Visual Studio 2008 Russian edition has just been Released!

I normally don't make a big deal out of localized languages shipping but this one's special.  We've been working on it for a long time (since I was still on the VS Setup team) so it's great to...

10/27/2008 6:42:00 PM
Pablo Galliano
VSXDevCon 08 sceencasts uploaded

The screencasts for the VSX Developer Conference 08 are live and can be downloaded from:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsx/cc676...

10/21/2008 1:33:21 PM
Allen Denver
The VS 2010 cat is peeking it's head out the bag - so to speak

Check out the article on VS 2010. ...

9/29/2008 7:22:00 PM
Ken Levy
Moving on to something new, but staying close
After working at Microsoft for over 7 years as an employee and almost 5 years before that as a contractor/vendor, I’ve decided it’s time for me to do become independent and ...
7/11/2008 5:48:36 PM
IntoFactories.NET
[GAT]: Differencing between bound and unbound recipes
Do you have the new version of the Guidance Automation Toolkit and the Guidance Automation Extensions installed? Well, then it’s time we take off on a trip into the “zone” just like ...
6/25/2008 12:59:08 PM
Deepankar Dubey
Moving on to New Avenues!

I had a fun ride on the VSX team over the last 3 years. It was great shipping VS 2005, VS 2008 and the SDKs and also working with VSIP partners, attending VSIP conferences and sharing some great id...

5/23/2008 11:58:00 PM
Leonardo Vernazza
Can UX be a Boomerang?

I kept thinking about the Jared's point of view about another security -vs- us...

2/10/2008 8:58:00 PM
Dr. Ex
Dr. eX has moved to the VSX Team Blog

This blog is now archived. Dr. eX, resident expert on anything to do with VSX, now posts on the 1/15/2008 4:21:00 AM

Craig Skibo
Why C# and VB are not supported for VS Shell Isolated stubs

I have been asked a few times why, when you run our wizard, we generate C++ code and not C# or VB. Some have even tried creating a C# or VB stub exe only to find errors when their program is run. W...

9/19/2007 4:17:00 PM
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