Steve Cook's WebLog
UML 2.5 Beta now available
The beta version of UML 2.5 is now available at https://www.omg.org/spec/UML/2.5/Beta1/. ...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 10/30/2012
UML 2.4.1 now released
When UML 2.4 was released we discovered an issue that meant it was impossible to interchange...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 10/24/2011
Back from Salt Lake City: now we have a plan for more flexible UML profiles
Last week I was at the OMG meeting in Salt Lake City. A high point of the meeting was issuing a...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 06/27/2011
Preparing for the next OMG meeting
I’ll be off to Salt Lake City in a couple of weeks for the next OMG meeting. One thing I’m going to...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 06/03/2011
UML Progress Report
I just finished participating in the OMG meeting in Arlington. Our work on UML 2.5 is moving along,...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 03/28/2011
New Sample: Linking UML elements to diagrams in Visual Studio Ultimate
Alan Wills has created a new sample that pulls together several of the capabilities of our...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 02/21/2011
UML 2.4 is complete
Finally we have completed all of the technical processes for creating UML 2.4. Now it just has to go...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 01/26/2011
UML 3 dilemmas
I’m back from the OMG meeting in Santa Clara. We talked a lot about the future of UML. Just about...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 12/13/2010
XMI 2.1 Export for VS2010 UML Tools
There is an XMI 2.1 Exporter now available for VS2010 UML Tools. It is available as source code in...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 11/26/2010
Hurtling back from Paris
I’m currently hurtling through the French countryside at some significant fraction of the speed of...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 11/26/2010
Use cases for UML
I had a conversation recently in which the following three use cases for UML were suggested: UML as...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 11/18/2010
The story of UML
Jean Bézivin is telling the story of UML on his blog. His post on How to choose the good ingredients...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 11/15/2010
UML for mainstream developers
I’d like to explore the idea that UML could be made more useful to mainstream developers if it were...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 10/19/2010
Back from the OMG meeting in Cambridge
I just arrived back from the Object Management Group’s September meeting in Cambridge (the one...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 09/27/2010
Domain Specific Development book website updated for VS2010
Our DSL Tools book website at https://www.domainspecificdevelopment.com/ has been updated with...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 08/20/2010
The Road Ahead for UML
I have co-written a paper about the future of UML with Ivar Jacobson. You can find it here. Let me...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 06/07/2010
Syntropy book available online
Back in 1994 I co-authored a book on modelling with my colleague John Daniels. We called our...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 04/23/2010
Why I signed up for SEMAT
I’ve recently become a signatory to SEMAT (Software Engineering Method and Theory). They’ve been...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 04/02/2010
Another OMG meeting is over
I’ve just finished the OMG meeting in Jacksonville. I got my first taste of the Board of Directors:...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 03/26/2010
Speaking at Microsoft Architect Insight Conference
I shall be speaking at the Microsoft Architect Insight Conference on 31st March, soon after arriving...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 01/29/2010
Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework Beta 2 is available
We’ve all been working very hard on beta 2 which is now available – see Cameron's announcement. I’ve...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 10/20/2009
Closing date for "Future Development of UML" RFI and workshop is 17th August
Reminder: the closing date for submissions to the Future Development of UML RFI is the 17th August....
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 07/31/2009
UML Structured Classes part 2
Last time I explained about Parts using a small example. But the idea of Parts can extend equally...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 06/23/2009
UML Structured Classes part 1
Recently I have spend quite a lot of time working out proposals to fix problems in the definition of...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 06/17/2009
The Oslo team are implementing UML 2
Keith Short has announced that the next Oslo CTP will include support for loading UML models into...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 05/28/2009
VS 2010 DSL SDK Beta1
Following close on the heels of VS2010 Beta1, we've announced the corresponding DSL SDK (oh those...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 05/22/2009
Ages of silence
I see I haven't written anything here since February. I've been very busy on two main fronts - lots...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 05/21/2009
Alan is blogging again
Alan Cameron Wills has started blogging about UML for Agile Development. This should be...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 02/02/2009
Future Development of UML RFI issued by OMG
Last week I attended the OMG's technical meeting in Santa Clara. I was pleased that the Analysis and...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 12/15/2008
Data is a mass noun
Datum is singular. Data is plural. So we ought to talk about these data and many data and fewer...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 11/27/2008
Explicit Design
Cameron has been blogging about new features in our product.. In a recent post he used the term...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 11/27/2008
Oslo topics
Keith Short has been blogging about Oslo and the DSL Toolkit and Oslo's use of model-driven...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 11/21/2008
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...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 11/05/2008
UML Syntax and Semantics
So what really is the difference between syntax and semantics in UML? Firstly there is the notation,...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 11/02/2008
Architecture Edition Videos
If you want more details about the tools we're building, Cameron Skinner gives an overview of the...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 10/21/2008
Class Diagrams
The most familiar UML diagram is the class diagram. A class diagram can mean many different things....
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 10/13/2008
UML and DSLs
So is UML really contradictory to DSLs? Do they really represent different philosophies? I don’t...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 10/07/2008
Rejoining the OMG – UML and beyond
Last week I attended an OMG meeting for the first time in almost 6 years. If you don’t know, the OMG...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 09/29/2008
Eyal joins the team
A slightly belated hello to Eyal who has joined the DSL Tools team in Cambridge. Welcome Eyal!
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 09/19/2008
Microsoft joins the OMG
We've just announced our membership of the Object Management Group. As Cameron says, I shall be at...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 09/11/2008
Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 has been released
See the VSX team blog.
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 08/21/2008
DSL Book Website updated
The website for our DSL book has been updated - thanks Gareth. This includes downloadable versions...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 07/23/2008
Code Generation 2008
Slides from the CG2008 conference are posted here. Clemens Reijnen blogged about it, and is posting...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 07/21/2008
I’ve got a new job working on DSLs and UML!
Having spent a year in the Visual Studio Ecosystem team helping to integrate the DSL Tools deeper...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 06/25/2008
Keeping busy
James and Jean-Marc are kicking off their European tour in Brussels. Gareth has found some more...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 05/20/2008
A new member of the team!
Jean-Marc has joined our team! He brings some great new ideas and energy to what we're doing and I'm...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 04/18/2008
Extra entries on the undo stack
I spent some of this afternoon looking at a problem reported on the VSX forum. The questioner has...
Author: Steve Cook MSFT Date: 04/14/2008