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.