Samples for Domain-Specific Language Tools

Domain-Specific Language Tools includes samples that can help you understand the technology and that are often referenced in the documentation. You can open these samples in Visual Studio if you have installed the Visual Studio SDK, which includes Domain-Specific Language Tools. By pressing F5, you build the samples, register them in the Visual Studio experimental build, and start a new instance of Visual Studio from the experimental build.

In This Section

• User Interface Process Sample
  Demonstrates code generation, validation, deployment, and use of custom commands in a complete, end-to-end sample.

• Class Diagram Sample
  Demonstrates complex validation.

• Components Diagram Sample
  Demonstrates how to nest shapes, restrict the connections a user can make and make shapes with multi-line text fields.

• Task Flow Diagram Sample
  Demonstrates restricting how the user can move or stretch a shape, using a Bounds Rule. Also demonstrates restricting the default points at which connectors join a shape, using custom connection points and restricting what connections can be made by customizing a Connection Builder.

• Use Cases Diagram Sample
  Demonstrates how to create an DSL similar to the UML use-cases notation, with validations.

• Family Tree Sample
  Demonstrates basic validation and simple report generation.

• Directive Processor Sample
  Provides an overview on directive processors used with text templates.