DSLFactory Utilities

COMMENTED ISSUE: Visual Studio 2008 SDK Support

AlexanderZeitler — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:30:39 GMT

Having support for Orcas would be ideal for this tool. I'm doing some work on a DSL Tools-based system, and the capabilities you offer would be very handy.
Comments: ** Comment from web user: AlexanderZeitler **

I would appreciate it, too.

NEW POST: Where is DSLFactory.Utilities sources itselft?

EvilShrike — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:11:14 GMT

Guys, where can I get DSLFactory.Utilities sources, which was used for creating WCFDesigner ?

CREATED ISSUE: Visual Studio 2008 SDK Support

JoeMu — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:42:31 GMT

Having support for Orcas would be ideal for this tool. I'm doing some work on a DSL Tools-based system, and the capabilities you offer would be very handy.

UPDATED WIKI: library

jmprieur — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:51:39 GMT

Coming soon

UPDATED WIKI: Home

jmprieur — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:50:39 GMT

Project Description

DSLFactory.Utilities is a library providing a set of utilities to be used with Domain Specific Languages created with the Microsoft DSL Tools Among other features you will find new common contextual commands, help for supporting reverse engineering from class view, incremental code generation, and more generally model-code synchronization.

Target audience

The libray is for developers or architects wanting to improve the customization of the DSLs they created with the Microsoft DSL Tools. They will, thus, be able to create bidirectional DSLs in the same spirit as Visual Studio ClassDiagram.
The WCF Designer DSL is for anybody wanting to manipulate WCF concepts from models.

Features

Watch the library at work: the WCF Designer

We provide a sample of how to use the library: the WCF Designer. It enables bidirectional editing of Windows Communication Foundation concepts (model and C# code are synchronized)

Download WCF Designer (may 31st 2007) - Watch the video "How to create a simple service" - Watch the video Reverse engineering a WCF service

The supported concepts are Service Contracts, Data Contracts, Message Contracts, Services, and Service Hosting .You can either edit the diagram ahead or the code below : both are kept synchronized.

For us, the purpose of the DSL is to be the playground for experimentations, and the sample we will use in several publications to come that will explain how to use the library and how it works.
But this is also a gift we make to our friend community : http://netfxfactory.org for their great event : the .NET 3.0 Enterprise Realization Day

the library

The library offers, for the moment:

Standard contextual commands such as Copy, Paste (borrowed from the DSL Tools authors excellent book), LayoutDiagram
Drag and drop from Class View (D & D from Solution View and Data Table to come)
Helper functions for using DTE such as:

KnownCodeTypes which enable efficient access to all the types known by the project hosting the DSL
IncrementalGenerator which helps creating incremental code generator (absolutely necessary when you want to have bidirectional DSLs)
StoreCorrespondance which makes it easy to retreive the Projecttem, Project, or KnownCodeTypes associated with a DSL (accessed from the Store property of any ModelElement)
VariableLabel which solves once for all the problem of the representation of variables (for exemple in compartment) in the form "name : type", with type checking, and type fully qualified name infering from short name (with type chooser in case there are several possibilities)
MethodLabel which solves once for all the problem of the representation of methods : conversions are possible between Label, prototype, signature, name, parameters name and types. The label is a condensed representation whereas the fully qualified name of the return type and the parameter types are known.

An article is being writen explaining more about this library

Looking ahead

The ultimate purpose of this project is to further automate the production of such bidirectional DSLs by creating a DSL which will capture the mapping between the DomainModel and code. The calls to the DslFactory.Utilities library will then be generated from this mapping model.

About us

The dslfactory community (http://www.dslfactory.org) is a (French) community about DSLs, GAT, and more generally the Visual Studio extensibility. We have already provided introductory sessions to the DSL Tools, for example at the Microsoft France TechDays 2007, and a big DSL Tools Lab.
We now are committed to explain how to create bidirectional DSLs, and automate this very complex process as much as possible.

UPDATED WIKI: An article

jmprieur — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:49:03 GMT

Coming soon ...

UPDATED WIKI: Home

jmprieur — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:48:19 GMT

Project Description

Target audience

The libray is for developers or architects wanting to improve the customization of the DSLs they created with the Microsoft DSL Tools. They will, thus, be able to create bidirectional DSLs in the same spirit as Visual Studio ClassDiagram.
The WCF Designer DSL is for anybody wanting to manipulate WCF concepts from models.

Features

Watch the library at work: the WCF Designer

the library

The library offers, for the moment:

Standard contextual commands such as Copy, Paste (borrowed from the DSL Tools authors excellent book), LayoutDiagram
Drag and drop from Class View (D & D from Solution View and Data Table to come)
Helper functions for using DTE such as:

KnownCodeTypes which enable efficient access to all the types known by the project hosting the DSL
IncrementalGenerator which helps creating incremental code generator (absolutely necessary when you want to have bidirectional DSLs)
StoreCorrespondance which makes it easy to retreive the Projecttem, Project, or KnownCodeTypes associated with a DSL (accessed from the Store property of any ModelElement)
VariableLabel which solves once for all the problem of the representation of variables (for exemple in compartment) in the form "name : type", with type checking, and type fully qualified name infering from short name (with type chooser in case there are several possibilities)
MethodLabel which solves once for all the problem of the representation of methods : conversions are possible between Label, prototype, signature, name, parameters name and types. The label is a condensed representation whereas the fully qualified name of the return type and the parameter types are known.

An article is being writen explaining fore about this library

Looking ahead

About us

UPDATED WIKI: Home

jmprieur — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 09:32:50 GMT

Project Description

Target audience

The libray is for developers or architects wanting to improve the customization of the DSLs they created with the Microsoft DSL Tools. They will, thus, be able to create bidirectional DSLs in the same spirit as Visual Studio ClassDiagram.
The WCF Designer DSL is for anybody wanting to manipulate WCF concepts from models.

Features

Watch the library at work: the WCF Designer

the library

The library offers, for the moment:

Standard contextual commands such as Copy, Paste (borrowed from the DSL Tools authors excellent book), LayoutDiagram
Drag and drop from Class View (D & D from Solution View and Data Table to come)
Helper functions for using DTE such as:

KnownCodeTypes which enable efficient access to all the types known by the project hosting the DSL
IncrementalGenerator which helps creating incremental code generator (absolutely necessary when you want to have bidirectional DSLs)
StoreCorrespondance which makes it easy to retreive the Projecttem, Project, or KnownCodeTypes associated with a DSL (accessed from the Store property of any ModelElement)
VariableLabel which solves once for all the problem of the representation of variables (for exemple in compartment) in the form "name : type", with type checking, and type fully qualified name infering from short name (with type chooser in case there are several possibilities)
MethodLabel which solves once for all the problem of the representation of methods : conversions are possible between Label, prototype, signature, name, parameters name and types. The label is a condensed representation whereas the fully qualified name of the return type and the parameter types are known.

Looking ahead

About us

NEW POST: Seeing wcfLanguage

jmprieur — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 23:40:42 GMT

Hello
Wouldn't you have a localized version of Visual Studio ?

Indeed, I have created the setup of the DSL for an en-US version of Visual Studio (code 1033), thus the ItemTemplate for the .wcf file is wcfLanguage.zip and is located in the following folder:
{Program Files}\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\CSharp\1033

If your version of VS 2005 is indeed, localized, you should

copy the wcfLanguage.zip file to the folder corresponding to your culture's code,
close all instances of Visual Studio,
and run devenv /setup

For more information see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/library/y3kkate1(VS.80).aspx

If you are using an english version of VS 2005, please tell me so that we can investigate further.
Best regards
Jean-Marc.

NEW POST: Seeing wcfLanguage

johanvanstaden — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:59:20 GMT

Hi all,
I’ve installed the WCF Designer utility and all 3 DSLFactory libs are showing in windows\assembly, so I assume it did install. But when I add a project the wcfLanguage option is not available.
I’m using VS2005 Team Edition for Software Developers, also using the Software factory.

MMmm any ideas, I’m quite keen to get this to work. It looks damn nice.

Thanks!

UPDATED WIKI: Home

jmprieur — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:42:38 GMT

Project Description

Target audience

The developers or architects wanting to improve the customization of the DSLs they created with the Microsoft DSL Tools. They will, thus, be able to create bidirectional DSLs in the same spirit as Visual Studio ClassDiagram.

Features

Watch the library at work: the WCF Designer

the library

The library offers, for the moment:

Standard contextual commands such as Copy, Paste (borrowed from the DSL Tools authors excellent book), LayoutDiagram
Drag and drop from Class View (D & D from Solution View and Data Table to come)
Helper functions for using DTE such as:

KnownCodeTypes which enable efficient access to all the types known by the project hosting the DSL
IncrementalGenerator which helps creating incremental code generator (absolutely necessary when you want to have bidirectional DSLs)
StoreCorrespondance which makes it easy to retreive the Projecttem, Project, or KnownCodeTypes associated with a DSL (accessed from the Store property of any ModelElement)
VariableLabel which solves once for all the problem of the representation of variables (for exemple in compartment) in the form "name : type", with type checking, and type fully qualified name infering from short name (with type chooser in case there are several possibilities)
MethodLabel which solves once for all the problem of the representation of methods : conversions are possible between Label, prototype, signature, name, parameters name and types. The label is a condensed representation whereas the fully qualified name of the return type and the parameter types are known.

Looking ahead

About us

UPDATED WIKI: Home

jmprieur — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:36:29 GMT

Project Description

Target audience

Features

Watch the library at work: the WCF Designer

We provide a sample of how to use the library: the WCF Designer. It enables bidirectional editing of Windows Communication Foundation concepts (model and C# code are synchronized)

Download WCF Designer (may 31st 2007) - Watch the video How to create a simple service

The supported concepts are Service Contracts, Data Contracts, Message Contracts, Services, and Service Hosting .You can either edit the diagram ahead or the code below : both are kept synchronized.

For us, the purpose of the DSL is to be the playground for experimentations, and the sample we will use in several publications to come that will explain how to use the library and how it works.
But this is also a gift we make to our friend community : http://netfxfactory.org for their great event : the .NET 3.0 Enterprise Realization Day

the library

The library offers, for the moment:

Standard contextual commands such as Copy, Paste (borrowed from the DSL Tools authors excellent book), LayoutDiagram
Drag and drop from Class View (D & D from Solution View and Data Table to come)
Helper functions for using DTE such as:

KnownCodeTypes which enable efficient access to all the types known by the project hosting the DSL
IncrementalGenerator which helps creating incremental code generator (absolutely necessary when you want to have bidirectional DSLs)
StoreCorrespondance which makes it easy to retreive the Projecttem, Project, or KnownCodeTypes associated with a DSL (accessed from the Store property of any ModelElement)
VariableLabel which solves once for all the problem of the representation of variables (for exemple in compartment) in the form "name : type", with type checking, and type fully qualified name infering from short name (with type chooser in case there are several possibilities)
MethodLabel which solves once for all the problem of the representation of methods : conversions are possible between Label, prototype, signature, name, parameters name and types. The label is a condensed representation whereas the fully qualified name of the return type and the parameter types are known.

Looking ahead

About us

UPDATED RELEASE: WCF Designer (may 31st 2007) (mai 31, 2007)

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:54:38 GMT

This zip file contrains the WCF bidirectional designer for Visual Studio 2005 (except Express edition). This DSL can be used by itselft. But this is also a sample of how to use the DslFactory.Utilities library. To install it : - unzip the file - run the setup.exe program. If necessary the DSL Tools redistribuable will automatically be installed, and then your DSL. To use it - Add a new item to your project of type wfcLanguage. To uninstall it Use the uninstall command from the control panel.

UPDATED RELEASE: The WCF Designer (may 31st 2007) (mai 31, 2007)

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:54:24 GMT

UPDATED WIKI: Home

jmprieur — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:53:47 GMT

Project Description

Target audience

Features

Watch the library at work: the WCF Designer

We provide a sample of how to use the library: the WCF Designer. It enables bidirectional editing of Windows Communication Foundation concepts (model and C# code are synchronized)
Download The WCF Designer (may 31st 2007)

The supported concepts are Service Contracts, Data Contracts, Message Contracts, Services, and Service Hosting .You can either edit the diagram ahead or the code below : both are kept synchronized.

For us, the purpose of the DSL is to be the playground for experimentations, and the sample we will use in several publications to come that will explain how to use the library and how it works.
But this is also a gift we make to our friend community : http://netfxfactory.org for their great event : the .NET 3.0 Enterprise Realization Day

the library

The library offers, for the moment:

Standard contextual commands such as Copy, Paste (borrowed from the DSL Tools authors excellent book), LayoutDiagram
Drag and drop from Class View (D & D from Solution View and Data Table to come)
Helper functions for using DTE such as:

KnownCodeTypes which enable efficient access to all the types known by the project hosting the DSL
IncrementalGenerator which helps creating incremental code generator (absolutely necessary when you want to have bidirectional DSLs)
StoreCorrespondance which makes it easy to retreive the Projecttem, Project, or KnownCodeTypes associated with a DSL (accessed from the Store property of any ModelElement)
VariableLabel which solves once for all the problem of the representation of variables (for exemple in compartment) in the form "name : type", with type checking, and type fully qualified name infering from short name (with type chooser in case there are several possibilities)
MethodLabel which solves once for all the problem of the representation of methods : conversions are possible between Label, prototype, signature, name, parameters name and types. The label is a condensed representation whereas the fully qualified name of the return type and the parameter types are known.

Looking ahead

About us

CLOSED FEATURE: Add menu commands on data-member and roles to hide / change to role / change to member

jmprieur — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:35:33 GMT

Hide contextual commands on data member in data contract shape, or on connector representing Datacontract usage in order to : - represent a member into a role - represent a role into a member - hide a role / member

UPDATED RELEASE: The WCF Designer (may 31st 2007) (mai 31, 2007)

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:34:57 GMT

UPDATED RELEASE: The WCF Designer (may 31st 2007) (mai 31, 2007)

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:34:40 GMT

UPDATED RELEASE: The WCF Designer (may 31st 2007) (mai 31, 2007)

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:32:08 GMT

This zip file contrains the WCF bidirectional designer for Visual Studio 2005 (except Express edition). This DSL can be used by itselft. But this is also a sample of how to use the DslFactory.Utilities library. *To install it :* * unzip the file * run the setup.exe program. If necessary the DSL Tools redistribuable will automatically be installed, and then your DSL. *To use it* Add a new element of type wfclanguage to your project. *To uninstall it* Use the uninstall command from the control panel.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

jmprieur — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:32:22 GMT

Project Description

Target audience

Features

Watch the library at work: the WCF Designer

We provide a sample of how to use the library: the WCF Designer. It enables bidirectional editing of Windows Communication Foundation concepts (model and C# code are synchronized)

The supported concepts are Service Contracts, Data Contracts, Message Contracts, Services, and Service Hosting .You can either edit the diagram ahead or the code below : both are kept synchronized.

For us, the purpose of the DSL is to be the playground for experimentations, and the sample we will use in several publications to come that will explain how to use the library and how it works.
But this is also a gift we make to our friend community : http://netfxfactory.org for their great event : the .NET 3.0 Enterprise Realization Day

the library

The library offers, for the moment:

Standard contextual commands such as Copy, Paste (borrowed from the DSL Tools authors excellent book), LayoutDiagram
Drag and drop from Class View (D & D from Solution View and Data Table to come)
Helper functions for using DTE such as:

KnownCodeTypes which enable efficient access to all the types known by the project hosting the DSL
IncrementalGenerator which helps creating incremental code generator (absolutely necessary when you want to have bidirectional DSLs)
StoreCorrespondance which makes it easy to retreive the Projecttem, Project, or KnownCodeTypes associated with a DSL (accessed from the Store property of any ModelElement)
VariableLabel which solves once for all the problem of the representation of variables (for exemple in compartment) in the form "name : type", with type checking, and type fully qualified name infering from short name (with type chooser in case there are several possibilities)
MethodLabel which solves once for all the problem of the representation of methods : conversions are possible between Label, prototype, signature, name, parameters name and types. The label is a condensed representation whereas the fully qualified name of the return type and the parameter types are known.