A rash of bloggers

Just lately there seems to be a veritable feast of new blog stuff about VSX (if you don't mind me switching metaphors).  Some of these I stumbled across and some were pointed up to me by DuncanP.

• Oleg Sych now has a great series of T4 posts
  • An explanatory series
  • A series of patterns of T4 template design
  • An article about creating a VS template for T4 templates
  • A bunch of ready to go presentations on T4
• On the subject of T4 templates, Hilton Giesenow also has a post on a couple of T4 VS templates he's whipped up.
• Krzysztof Cwalina has announced the Managed Extensibility Framework - this is something to keep an eye on as it will play a role in Visual Studio eXtensibility in future.
• He also has a very neat post on the Simulated Covariance pattern for .Net Generics which is nothing to do with VSX, but funky nonetheless.
• Gokhan Altinoren has a neat demo of fronting a DSL Tool with a WPF-based design surface.
• David DeWinter has
  • an article on using T4 to generate a complete set of sProcs for the new ADO.Net Entity Framework. It appears that he co-conspired on it with Ryan Hauert.
  • A series on Dynamic Menu Commands in VSX packages

Phew!

Comments

• Anonymous
  June 04, 2008
  Congratulations to the MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) team who just released their first CTP!

• Anonymous
  June 27, 2008
  So now I've found myself some time to get the blog started again with Long time no blog, UML and DSLs