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Technical Debt
I’ve been doing some research on the topic of technical debt recently, and found the following great...
Date: 11/12/2014
CodeLens & Code Map improvements announced at #VSConnect events
In case you missed them, there have been some new capabilities announced today in the #VSConnect...
Date: 11/12/2014
Kanban, MMFs and the Goldilocks Principle
https://agileproductdesign.com/blog/2009/kanban_over_simplified.html really resonates with me. The...
Date: 10/24/2014
Nice to tweet you
I’ve been on twitter for a while, but only recently started to use it actively. Enjoying the...
Date: 10/24/2014
Direction and changes for Architecture and Design Tools in Visual Studio
We’ve just posted in this topic over on the VS ALM blog. Please send us your feedback. Upcoming...
Date: 10/24/2014
CodeLens incoming changes indicator
In case you missed in my recent post about Code @ Scale, Mathew Aniyan has just blogged about the...
Date: 03/03/2014
Code @ Scale
As customers you may not be that interested about how we are internally organized to deliver the...
Date: 03/03/2014
Is Model Driven Development Feasible?
This is the question asked in the title of a post on our modeling and tools forum, and rather than...
Date: 04/07/2011
Sprinkling the MEF fairy dust on DSLs
We’ve been enjoying injecting MEF extension points in our tools to make it easy for customers to...
Date: 05/25/2010
Useful blog on VS2010 Architecture Tools
Cameron Skinner has recently been on tour in the US giving talks about the new architecture tools in...
Date: 05/25/2010
Extending UML sequence diagrams to cover LINQ
Just catching up on blog reading and came across this post from Cameron:...
Date: 05/25/2010
Tech Days UK videos now available
Videos of the VS2010 launch and deep dive sessions at the recent Tech Days UK event are now...
Date: 04/27/2010
Tech Days in London
Writing this as I come back from speaking at Tech Days in London, in a series of deep dive sessions...
Date: 04/14/2010
Interesting case study in using VS2010 architect tools
Just came across this. Check it out:...
Date: 04/12/2010
VS2010 Visualization and Modeling SDK
It’s great to see that the RTM version of the Visualization and Modeling SDK is also available at...
Date: 04/12/2010
Visualizing work item graphs in VS2010
In Visual Studio 2010, released today, there is a new visualization tool which, in-the-box allows...
Date: 04/12/2010
VS2010 – Useful links on getting started with ALM features
I just came across this post from Charles Sterling with a bunch of useful links:...
Date: 04/12/2010
What went wrong with my demo at the Architect Insight Conference
I recently gave a talk at the Microsoft Architect Insight Conference held in London recently. I gave...
Date: 04/12/2010
Talking about architect tools at VS2010 launch
Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0 launches today across the world, and I have the pleasure of giving a...
Date: 04/12/2010
Empirical assessment of the efficacy of MDE: Can you help?
I’m lending my support to a research project which is trying to assess the effectiveness of MDE. The...
Date: 11/25/2009
Extending UML designers in VS2010 Beta2
As mentioned in this post, the UML designers in VS2010 Ultimate now come with a set of APIs that...
Date: 11/02/2009
Jean-Marc blogs about DSL Tools in VS2010 Beta2
Back from holiday (in Cyprus, 30 degrees C, very relaxing thanks), and as I suggested might happen...
Date: 11/02/2009
VS2010 Beta2 Available, Links to posts on Arch Tools in Beta2
VS2010 Beta2 is available for download. Install Ultimate and you’ll be able to give the architecture...
Date: 10/21/2009
Most influential paper award
Life can throw up surprises, some nasty some rather pleasant. Well this week I received an email...
Date: 08/14/2009
Pedro on the Code Generation Conference
Pedro Molina has blogged about his experience at the code generation conference in Cambridge. Pedro...
Date: 06/23/2009
So what is a DSL anyway?
The term Domain Specific Language (DSL) is a popular buzz-word at the moment. If you look at...
Date: 06/23/2009
More from Code Generation 2009
Now I’m back from the conference, here’s an update on my first report. Some highlights for me during...
Date: 06/23/2009
IMS Locks Sample for VS DSL Tools 2010 Beta1
I see that Jean-Marc has just posted another sample on the DSL Tools Code Gallery landing page, this...
Date: 06/23/2009
News from code generation 2009
I’m at the Code Generation 2009 conference in Cambridge, which started yesterday. Numbers are a...
Date: 06/17/2009
ModelBus Adapters Project Template
Jean-Marc has just posted a ModelBus Adapters project template on the Visual Studio Gallery. This...
Date: 06/17/2009
DSL Tools VS2010 Beta1: ModelBus Sample
One of the most common asks from customers of the DSL Tools has been support for integrating models...
Date: 06/03/2009
Much simpler deployment of DSLs in VS2010
In Visual Studio 2010 you’ll find a new extension manager that makes it much easier to package and...
Date: 05/22/2009
Speaking at Code Generation 2009
I’m speaking at the Code Generation 2009 conference in Cambridge in June on the topic of...
Date: 05/22/2009
T4 Roundup
Gareth has been posting a lot about T4 over the past few months. In case you missed it, here’s a...
Date: 05/22/2009
Migrating DSLs to VS2010 Beta1
When we released DSL Tools for VS2008, the migration story from VS2005 was not great: basically we...
Date: 05/22/2009
DSL Tools for Visual Studio 2010
It seems that my blog entries and those of some of my colleagues (Steve, Jean-Marc, Gareth) are like...
Date: 05/22/2009
Back with Team Architect
As Cameron blogged in Visual Studio Team System 2010 Architecture: Prologue, the DSL Tools team have...
Date: 12/03/2008
Teach yourself DSL Tools
Jean-Marc has just posted a lab on code gallery, which provides a fully worked, step-by-step example...
Date: 11/10/2008
DSL Tools and Oslo
The Oslo modeling platform was announced at Microsoft's PDC and we've been asked by a number of...
Date: 11/06/2008
DSL Tools in Visual Studio 2010
The first public CTP of Visual Studio 10 Anyone attending or watching the goings on at Microsoft's...
Date: 11/05/2008
Chinese version of DSL Book published
Our colleagues in China have been busy translating our DSL Book into Chinese. It's taken 6 months...
Date: 08/11/2008
VSX Developer Conference
We're holding our first Visual Studio Extensibility Developer conference in September. See...
Date: 08/11/2008
Vs2008 version of Dsl Book Samples
We've finally converted all the samples for our book on Domain Specific Development for VS2008. They...
Date: 07/23/2008
Agile platform development. The problem.
Classic scrum Our team uses Scrum to manage it's software development. A key tenet of Scrum is that...
Date: 06/27/2008
Catching Up
So now I've found myself some time to get the blog started again with Long time no blog, UML and...
Date: 06/27/2008
Long Time No Blog, UML and DSLs
Technorati Tags: DSL Tools,UML Embarrassing, but true. Last time I blogged was back in February. I'm...
Date: 06/27/2008
If you're a student, get Visual Studio Pro for free
If you're a student, then Microsoft has just announced a new program called DreamSpark to get Visual...
Date: 02/20/2008
More rapid deployment of VS extensions
Over on Deep's blog I came across the following comment to his post on Tools for Tools. I had looked...
Date: 02/08/2008
Book on VS Extensibility
I've just seen in the VSX newsletter that there is a book on Visual Studio Extensibility soon to be...
Date: 02/08/2008
Quan started blogging about VSX
Quan is a new (and, I should say, very productive) PM on the VS Ecosystem Team. He's now started...
Date: 02/07/2008