Supported Visual Studio Editions for Visualization & Modeling SDK
The following are lists of the Visual Studio editions that are supported with Domain-Specific Language Tools in the authoring and deployment environments. For more information on these editions, see the Microsoft Visual Studio Developer Center.
Authoring Edition
To define a DSL, you must have installed the following components:
| Product | Download link |
|---|---|
| Visual Studio | http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=185579 |
| Visual Studio SDK | http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=185580 |
| Visual Studio Visualization and Modeling SDK | http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=186128 |
Note
The Text Template Transformation component is automatically installed as part of the Visual Studio extension development workload. You can also install it from the Individual components tab of Visual Studio Installer, under the SDKs, libraries, and frameworks category. Install the Modeling SDK component from the Individual components tab.
Deployment Editions
Domain-Specific Language Tools supports the following configurations for deploying the domain-specific languages that you build:
Visual Studio Enterprise
Visual Studio Professional
Visual Studio Shell (integrated mode) redistributable package redistributable package
Visual Studio Shell (isolated mode) redistributable package redistributable package
Note
To make a DSL able to run on a Shell product, you must set the Supported VS Edition field in the Extension Manifest. For more information, see Deploying Domain-Specific Language Solutions.