Jean-Marc Prieur's Blog
We re-released the VsVmSdk for Visual Studio 2012 RTM
Last Friday, we have re-release the VsVmSdk that was originally released on 8/15. The new version of...
Date: 09/24/2012
Error Migrating some DSL solutions to Visual Studio 2012
As you may know, it is possible to migrate a DSL Project to the current version of Visual Studio...
Date: 08/14/2012
What is new in Visual Studio 2012 RC Visualization and Modeling SDK ?
Last week, we shipped the VsVm SDK RC (Visual Studio 2012 RC Visualization and Modeling SDK). Here...
Date: 06/05/2012
What is new with T4 in Visual Studio 11 Beta?
In case you missed it, Gareth just blogged about what’s new with T4. As you know T4 is independent...
Date: 04/03/2012
More about the Code Index SDK
If you were waiting for more information about the code index SKD, please know that I’ve continued...
Date: 03/13/2012
What is the code index SDK?
The Dependency Graphs in Visual Studio Ultimate are much more scalable … In Visual Studio 2010, we...
Date: 03/01/2012
Announcing the Visual Studio 11 Beta Visualization and Modeling SDK
After we released the Visual Studio 11 Beta (along with the Visual Studio 11 Beta SDK)...
Date: 03/01/2012
How to get a unique name for connectors across a whole model?
Joeul asks an interesting question in his forum post. reference relationships' names are not...
Date: 02/07/2011
New improved documents and sample available
If you don’t know it already, you’ll be pleased to learn that Alan has posted yesterday a news on...
Date: 08/27/2010
Working around a bug in the ProvideCodeGeneratorAttribute
Summary There is a bug in the ProvideCodeGeneratorAttribute, which breaks VSIX deployment because it...
Date: 06/03/2010
Enabling your DSL for MEF extensions
One month ago, I described an extension to the DslDesigner to author modelbus. This is a real life...
Date: 05/17/2010
A nice article from NetFxFactory about using WPF-databinding feature in the DSL Tools 2010
Pascal and Anthony from the NetFxFactory community have just published another great article...
Date: 05/10/2010
I just fixed a bug in the DslDesignerExtensionForModelBus sample
After my attention was drawn by a question on the forum (StateKind Enumeration), I discovered a bug...
Date: 05/01/2010
How to: Deploy the XML schema describing the serialization of your DSL?
The problem If you build a DSL and deploy it on a different machine by double-clicking on a VSIX,...
Date: 05/01/2010
What’s new in T4 in Visual Studio 2010
Gareth posted a list of new features for T4 in Visual Studio 2010:...
Date: 04/27/2010
An update of the “DslTools Lab” is available for Visual Studio 2010
Alan just published an update of the Visual Studio Visualization and Modeling SDK Lab (DSL Tools...
Date: 04/19/2010
A new sample of why and how to extend the DslDesigner … but also a way of enabling the Modelbus in your DSL.
Along with our RTM version of the Visual Studio Visualization and Modeling SDK, we have posted a new...
Date: 04/14/2010
What happens when you unfold a new designer with VS2010 VsVm_Sdk RTM? T4-MsBuild in action!
Unfolding a new Dsl In the RTM release of the Visualization and Modeling SDK, when we unfold a new...
Date: 04/12/2010
The RTM version of the Visual Studio Modeling and Visualization SDK is now available
We just released the RTM version of the Visual Studio Visualization and Modeling SDK (VsVm SDK),...
Date: 04/12/2010
Where has the Dsl Designer gone?
In the VSSDK for Visual Studio 2008, (as well as in the DSL SDK for VS2010 Beta1) the...
Date: 02/22/2010
DSL designers built from migrated beta 2 solutions might have empty toolbox
Context information about the problem The VSSDK msbuild targets changed between Beta2 and RC so that...
Date: 02/17/2010
The Visual Studio Visualization and Modeling SDK RC (DSL SDK RC) is available for download
I make a short break during my vacations to announce you that the DSL SDK is now part of the Visual...
Date: 02/11/2010
Domain model libraries
What are Domain Model Libraries One of the new features in VS2010 is the notion of Domain Model...
Date: 12/17/2009
Empty Toolbox for DSL Tools Diagram in experimental hive
There is already a post on the forum, about that, but I feel that I need to communicate a bit more....
Date: 10/26/2009
We released the DSL SDK for Visual Studio Beta2 this morning
I’m a bit late to announce it, but only now do I find the time to blog: this morning, we released...
Date: 10/21/2009
You are using the DSL Tools? I would like to know you better!
Among other things, I’m preparing my talk to the Development Tools Ecosystem Summit in Redmond...
Date: 10/01/2009
An Article about DSLs and WPF : “Provide an improved user experience to your DSLs”
Pascal Recchia and Anthony Guérot from Mexedge just published a new article: "Provide an...
Date: 09/22/2009
Pre-processed T4 templates
I was going to blog a bit about pre-processed T4 templates, that Gareth already explained a few...
Date: 07/21/2009
Copy / Cut / Paste of model elements
Behavior in previous versions of the DSL Tools In previous versions of the DSL Tools, the...
Date: 07/21/2009
Copy paste to an image
Behavior in previous versions of the DSL Tools In previous versions of the DslTools, when you wanted...
Date: 07/16/2009
Moveable decorators
Behavior in previous versions of the DSL Tools In previous versions of the DSL Tools, such as, in...
Date: 07/16/2009
Sticky toolbox items
Behavior in previous versions of the DSL Tools In previous versions of the DSL Tools, each time you...
Date: 07/16/2009
UI Enhancements in Visual Studio 2010 DSL SDK Beta1
Introduction In the Visual Studio 2010 DSL SDK Beta1, we added a few UI enhancements to the...
Date: 07/16/2009
Pablo Galiano blogs about Visual Studio 10 extensibility and provides samples
Pablo Galiano, from Clarius, has produced some nice content explaining the Visual Studio 10...
Date: 07/14/2009
New sample demonstrating the Domain Model Extensibility
We just published a new sample demonstrating how to extend a DSL after it has shipped. The sample...
Date: 06/26/2009
New Beta1 sample available: ImsLocks.
Today we made a new Beta1 sample available on the Code Gallery...
Date: 06/23/2009
A ModelBus sample is now available !
I’m excited to announce you that we just posted a first DSL SDK 2010 Beta1 sample available from...
Date: 06/01/2009
Announcing the Visual Studio 2010 DSL SDK Beta 1
After the Visual Studio 2010 SDK announcement yesterday, it’s my turn to be excited to announce the...
Date: 05/22/2009
Another T4 editor, by Tangible Engineering
Until now, I have been using Clarius’s T4 editor. However, Oleg recently wrote a post where he...
Date: 04/16/2009
Create XNA 3.0 games from DSLs
Last week, Andre Furtado announced the v0.2 release of SharpLudus. In a few minutes you describe...
Date: 03/09/2009
[DSL Tools] Creating multiple views for a DSL: a solution from the community !
I’m very excited to announce you that Pascal Recchia and Anthony Guerot (2 French MVPs) recently...
Date: 01/26/2009
The DSL Tools Lab is available
We just posted a one-day Lab on the DSL Tools on the Code Gallery :...
Date: 11/10/2008
DSL Tools at TechEd Europe
I am at TechEd Europe in Barcelona. As Stuart explained in DSL Tools in Visual Studio 2010, we have...
Date: 11/10/2008
[DSL Tools] Support of Nested shapes in Visual Studio 2008 SP1
As one of our customers remembered, we had announced a better support of nested shapes in Visual...
Date: 09/03/2008
[DSL Tools] Reference relationships and compartment shapes
Presentation of the problem: Deleting behaviour with compartments representing embeddings Most of...
Date: 08/30/2008
Update from the VSX Tour in Belgium
As you might know, James and I are currently doing a VSX Tour in Europe. James already provided...
Date: 05/28/2008
My first days visiting the team in Redmond
I'm currently visiting the VSX team in Redmond, introducing myself and meeting everybody. I'll be...
Date: 04/15/2008
Hello world
I started a few days ago in the Visual Studio Ecosystem team. During my last 19 years I worked in...
Date: 04/10/2008