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February CTP of DSL Tools is live in the Visual Studio 2005 SDK February 2006 CTP

I'm pleased to announce that DSL Tools is fully integrated into the February 2006 CTP of the Visual Studio 2005 SDK V2 which is now live at https://affiliate.vsipmembers.com/affiliate/downloadfiles.aspx

 

This means that there's now only one download required for DSL Tools customers to get the SDK, Tools, Documentation and Samples.

 

The integration of all our piece parts is the major change in this release, but there are one or two bug fixes and a new sample showing how to create a custom XML Directive Processor for T4 Text Templates.

 

Don’t worry though, we aren’t slowing down on features.  We've been super-busy with some really major goodies for our NEXT release.  As Stuart has mentioned in our forum, expect to see:

  • A revised, cleaner modeling API
  • Single file format and complete visual designer for all aspects of a DSL (yeah baby)
  • Clean, domain-specific serialization of models
  • Port Shapes

Comments

  • Anonymous
    February 06, 2006
    Do port shapes support a mechanism like the portdetailswindow ? What is your plan for this release ?
    Thank you.
  • Anonymous
    February 06, 2006
    Hi Alan,
    Portshapes are just shapes, nothing more or less.

    However, its perfectly feasible to create your own toolwindows to implement a details style window.

    We won't generate one of those, but it is on our list to try and put a toolwindow sample together.
  • Anonymous
    February 06, 2006
    Dave Bost tells us Team Foundation Server Takes One Step Closer To Shipping.  Jeff Beehler also has some...
  • Anonymous
    February 07, 2006
    As Gareth announced the DSL Tools are now an official part of the VS 2005 SDK. Our DSL Tools (Nov 2005)...
  • Anonymous
    February 08, 2006
    It's been a while since my last post, and for good reason. The whole team has had their heads...
  • Anonymous
    February 09, 2006
    I've been so immersed in getting V1 DSL Tools out the door, that I see I haven't posted a blog entry...