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Blog post explaining how you can enable a DSL to MEF extensions

Eyal — Tue, 18 May 2010 17:04:00 GMT

Jean-Marc published a nice post on how to enable a DSL to MEF extensios. There's a followup post for those who migrated from VS2005 and missing the magical InternalsVisibleTo attribute in their AssemblyInfo.cs.

For more info on DSL tools see this code gallery page: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/vsvmsdk

Eyal

DslLibraries in VS2010 DSL SDK

Eyal — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:52:33 GMT

One of the new features for DSL in VS2010 is DSL libraries, in this post I will explain how to use the new feature.

Prerequisites: VS SDK 2010 Beta2 and higher + DSL SDK 2010 Beta2 and higher.

DslLibrary is a DSL that is used as a library – you can extended it or just use it with you DslLibrary/DSL.

In order to start creating DslLibraries:

1. Start VS and then File->New->Project

2. Find the Domain-Specific Language Designer (under Other Project Type->Extensibility)

3. In the wizard choose DslLibrary and click Finish (or proceed with the wizard)

4. The wizard will unfold a single project solution with an empty model.

5. In DSL Explorer window right click on the root node and then add a Domain Class

6. Switch to Solution Explore Window and regenerate all (the command with the red rectangles surrounding it)

Note: For the current example you want be needing the generated code so, just the .dsl file itself.

7. Create another DslLibrary or a DSL.

8. When the second language is unfolded switch to the DSL Explorer Window

9. Right click on the root of the tree and choose Add DSL Library Import

10. Select the import and set the file path to the library (relative or absolute), when you hit ENTER, if the path is valid the library will appear in the DSL Explorer Window

11. At this point you can use the library in your language.

Note: as soon as you will consume it in your DSL you will create a dependency that will require the library to be present on the specified path.

VSSDK Assist December 2007 CTP

Eyal — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 14:32:00 GMT

According to Pablo Galiano VSSDK Assist December 2007 CTP is out and available for download.

The features are (from here):

Compatible with Visual Studio 2008 RTM and Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0
Support for CSharp and Vbasic code generation
VS package Setup project added (wix based)
Flavor project creation
Custom project creation
BitmapStrip creation
Extenders creation
Solution extenders
Project extenders

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