Creating Domain-Specific Language Solutions

Domain-Specific Language Tools includes several solution templates that you can use to create domain-specific languages. You use the solution templates in association with the Domain-Specific Language Designer Wizard. These solution templates include the following:

• Task Flow

• Class Diagrams

• Minimal Language

• Component Models

In This Section

• Walkthrough: Creating a Domain-Specific Language Solution
  Demonstrates the initial steps that you follow to create a domain-specific language using the Domain-Specific Language Designer Wizard. This walkthrough serves as the foundation for other walkthroughs provided in the documentation.

• Walkthrough: Customizing the Domain-Specific Language Definition
  Demonstrates the steps that you follow to customize a domain-specific language using the Domain-Specific Language Designer. This walkthrough builds upon the first walkthrough.

• Choosing a Domain-Specific Language Solution Template
  Provides an overview of the various solution templates for domain-specific languages, which include Minimal Language, Task Flow, Class Diagrams, and Component Models.

• How to: Create Domain-Specific Language Solutions
  Explains how to create a domain-specific language by using the Domain-Specific Language Designer Wizard with a solution template that you specify.

• How to: Test Domain-Specific Language Solutions
  Explains how to test your domain-specific language.

• How to: Remove a Domain-Specific Language
  Explains how to correctly remove an existing domain-specific language from the experimental and main registry hives.

• Troubleshooting Domain-Specific Language Tools
  Provides troubleshooting advice for domain-specific language issues regarding package load failures.

• Working with the Domain-Specific Language Designer
  Describes how to use the Domain-Specific Language Designer and its set of supporting tools, which include DSL Explorer and the DSL Details window.

Related Sections

• Domain-Specific Language Tools Glossary
  Defines key terms that are used in the Help for Domain-Specific Language Tools.