Robert asked if there were downloads for the recent Architect Forum on Software Factories run by Beat Schwegler and Ingo Rammer that I gatecrashed. Here they are: http://www.microsoft.com/uk/msdn/architecture/solution/default.mspx  

OK, so this is a bit of a gimmick, but the geek in me couldn't resist it (I made some excuse to myself about striving for greater accessibility).There's now a link on my blog page to get a podcast of this blog read to you in glorious speech-synthesizer-o-voice. You can get the podcast feed at...

As Stuart notes, there is a new update to our samples package available.Alan did most of the work to pull these samples together - nice one Alan. Stuart also notes that our next release will see the DSL Tools (and their samples) fully integrated into the main VS SDK.  We won't have a lot of new content in that release, just a few...

You'll gather by now from the torrent of posts (well, a relative torrent for me) that I'm catching up on my blogging. We've been pretty heads down of late getting our latest CTP out of the door. Bear with me, this is a long one.   A while back, Harry had a post that was even more interesting than his usual high standard. Entitled "Code is...

Robert asked if there were downloads for the recent Architect Forum on Software Factories run by Beat Schwegler and Ingo Rammer that I gatecrashed. Here they are: http://www.microsoft.com/uk/msdn/architecture/solution/default.mspx  

OK, so this is a bit of a gimmick, but the geek in me couldn't resist it (I made some excuse to myself about striving for greater accessibility).There's now a link on my blog page to get a podcast of this blog read to you in glorious speech-synthesizer-o-voice. You can get the podcast feed at...

People often ask me about the best way to debug T4 templates.  This topic is covered in our new downloadable help file CTP, but I thought I'd get it up here in searchable form.   The first thing you need to do is to set the debug flag on the template directive of your template.   <#@ template debug="true"...

People often ask me about the best way to debug T4 templates.  This topic is covered in our new downloadable help file CTP, but I thought I'd get it up here in searchable form.   The first thing you need to do is to set the debug flag on the template directive of your template.   <#@ template debug="true"...

I'm pleased to say that thanks to our stirling User Education team, we've now got a first CTP of documentation around the DSL Tools.   This tranche is focussed on the T4 Text Templating engine and you can download it here.   Enjoy.

I'm pleased to say that thanks to our stirling User Education team, we've now got a first CTP of documentation around the DSL Tools.   This tranche is focussed on the T4 Text Templating engine and you can download it here.   Enjoy.

Steven makes a really interesting reply to my question about API extension in his company's tool.   Firstly he makes the very realistic point that user expectations of a mature tool are that it will have a much wider scope of features than a version one tool - he's quite right there - there's only so much you can or should try to put into...

Steven makes a really interesting reply to my question about API extension in his company's tool.   Firstly he makes the very realistic point that user expectations of a mature tool are that it will have a much wider scope of features than a version one tool - he's quite right there - there's only so much you can or should try to put into...

Wow - easily the most techy blog title I've ever had…   Harry has an interesting concept of pseudomodel in his reply to my earlier post on imprecise models. I like the term too actually, but I'm not so sure about his description of process.   He says I don't think of writing code as "progressing gradually towards precision" and I doubt...

Wow - easily the most techy blog title I've ever had…   Harry has an interesting concept of pseudomodel in his reply to my earlier post on imprecise models. I like the term too actually, but I'm not so sure about his description of process.   He says I don't think of writing code as "progressing gradually towards precision" and I doubt...

As Stuart notes, there is a new update to our samples package available.Alan did most of the work to pull these samples together - nice one Alan. Stuart also notes that our next release will see the DSL Tools (and their samples) fully integrated into the main VS SDK.  We won't have a lot of new content in that release, just a few...