Here’s what Kraig has to say about the November 2010 SQL Server Model CTP that matches the RTM of Visual Studio 2010:

A update of the SQL Server Modeling CTP (November 2009) that’s compatible with the official (RTM) release of Visual Studio 2010 is now available on the Microsoft Download Center.  This release is strictly an updated version of the original November 2009 CTP release to support the final release of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.

Here’s how the Deep Fried guys describe episode 45: “At PDC 2009, ‘Oslo’ was renamed to SQL Modeling and it left a lot of developers scratching their heads. What better way to sort it all out than to talk with someone deep into the stack. We sat down with Lars Corneliussen to see how this is all going to turn out and it what it means for developers. Definitely an interesting show as it paints a different picture about where things are going with ‘M’, ‘M’ Grammar, SQL modeling, Entity Framework, Quadrant and so on.” Check it out!

An update of the SQL Server Modeling CTP (November 2009) that’s compatible with Visual Studio 2010 RC

We are currently preparing a release of the SQL Server Modeling November 2009 CTP that will install and operate with Visual Studio Release Candidate. We expect to make this release available the first week of March and will make an announcement here at that time.

We are also planning for another release of the November CTP that matches the final Visual Studio product (RTM) when that product becomes generally available.

The Telerik LINQ to “M” implementation allows developers to use LINQ

“In the 43rd episode of Deep Fried Bytes, Keith and Woody sit down at PDC

Rockford Lhotka has created a series of three videos showing how he has applied the SQL Server Modeling, specifically

Soma has posted a lovely description of what’s new in the Entity Framework for .NET 4.0, including:

• Foreign Key support so you can add a row without requiring you to download an object just to get the foreign key.
• Lazy Loading support so as you traverse a property that is a collection, the data is pulled on demand.
• Plain Old CLR Object support (POCO) so that you can build your own classes and have EF serialize those instead of generating new classes.
• T4-based Code Generation in case you do want classes generated but want to control the code.
• Data binding support for WPF and WinForms.
• WCF support with serialization attribute generation.
• Much better SQL generation so that you can read it better when you need what’s going on over the wire and so that it’s more efficient.
• Much better support for complex return values from stored procedures.

I’m such a fan of LINQPad you don’t even know. Recently Joe updated it to support Data Services and as of today, if you scroll down to the bottom of the LINQPad download page

This is a nice piece comparing NHibernate and EF4. Personally, I’m an EF4

If you weren’t lucky enough to be able to attend this year’s PDC, not only did you not get a killer laptop, but you didn’t get to see the Data & Modeling talks live and in person. Fortunately, Doug has a nice list of them so you can watch them from the comfort of your own home. Enjoy!

Doug Purdy shows off three features of “Quadrant” from the Nov ’09 SQL Server Modeling CTP bits in two minutes:

• Access to SQL Azure databases
• Creating custom views (including master detail) by mashing views together
• See the “markup” of any view in Quadrant and steal it/change it (just like view source in a Web browser)

I couldn’t wait for the PDC, so I posted a screen shot of my favorite new three features of “M” for defining domain-specific languages (DSLs) in the November 2009 CTP of “Oslo”:

• Expressions on the right-hand side in language actions to calculate results. “M” supports a rich expression syntax for a variety of data types.

• Data conversion functions for output, one for each of the supported “M” data types.

• DSL debugging mode to let you step through your input data and debug your language.

In the November 2009 CTP of “Oslo”, we’ve got some new DSL features in “M”, three of which I couldn’t wait for the PDC to brag about.

Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

Doug Purdy, my boss and one of the chiefs on the “Oslo” project has just announced the move from codename “Oslo” to SQL Server Modeling, which is the name we’ll be using for starting now for the group of “M”, “Quadrant” and Repository that you’ve come to know and love.

I was on .NET Rocks! recently talking to Richard and Carl about data in Visual Studio (object-oriented, XML

Gerben van Loon, a lead developer at Avanade, has put together a nice overview of a DSL they’ve been building for describing questionnaires in “M”, seeing how they flow in Quadrant and then executing them on their web site. Sweet stuff!

Kevin D. Wolf has built a sweet little language to describe state machines:

The States of a Invoice are New, Reviewed, Submitted, Paid, Overdue and Canceled.

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Felice has built a domain specific language (DSL) for defining NHibernate entities using “Oslo”, including both a command-line compiler and a very full-featured Intellipad add-in. Nice!

Bill Henning from Actipro Software has done it again, this time providing the components to drop real-time language creation features into your application for building custom grammars in the critically acclaimed SyntaxEditor control. Enjoy!

Kraig Brockschmidt, the author of calc.exe and the famous (and infamous : ) ”

Amanda Laucher talks about Oslo and its tools, Intellipad, m.exe and mg.exe - the

“In the May CTP bits, we started working on parts of uninstall support for schema created by an image, but didn’t expose it as a user-visible feature as we will in future CTPs. So if you want to get your hands on this functionality right now, give this SQL script a try. This creates a stored procedure creatively named ‘Uninstall,’ which takes one argument, the id of the image to uninstall which can be obtained from the [Language.Catalog.Runtime].[Images] table.”

Dave Langer, an architect at Microsoft, explores the question of how to model inheritance in “M”

Mikael Håkansson has built a WCF ServiceHostFactory to load service configurations from the “Oslo” Repository, which allows you to configure your services with

Imagine you’ve shipped v1 of your database applications against a schema created from “M”. Now, you’re about to ship the v2 of your database, but what about the v1 clients? Are the tables and views exposed from your database backward compatible or are you going to break those existing clients? How do you even find out?

Well, wonder no more! Telerik has shipped the alpha of their “Oslo” comparison tool, which can compare v1 of your “M” source code against v2 to see what’s changed and whether that’s going to break your v1 clients. And as if that weren’t enough, they’re working on another version of the tool that will create scripts so that you can migrate your v1 data to v2 after you’re satisfied that your v1 clients will continue to work.

Stephen Forte and Mehfuz (who, like Prince and Cher, needs no last name), have built LINQ to “M”, which means that if you’ve got “M” source code like this (shown in a C# string variable for loading convenience):

string MGraphCode =
  @"{{Name=""Stephen Forte"", Age=37}, ... }";

In part 1 and part 2

Rockford Lhotka of several C# and VB books

Matthew Wilson is pushing

Keith and Woody speak with the first repeat guest of the podcast, Shawn Wildermuth about Oslo and the M language.  In this episode listeners will get some real world examples and use cases for using Oslo and M along with a clearer understanding about DSLs and what the future may hold.

Be warned, this podcast uses the phrase “bowled shrimp.” : )

Dana Kaufman, a PM on the extended

Do you like Intellipad so much that you want to host it? If so, than you need Actipro’s SyntaxEditor, which is not only a kick-butt syntax highlighting editor, but can be completely driven by an

I love our customers. They do things like take our bits and produce MGDisplay, a tool written by Ceyhun Ciper for visualizing the parse tree produced by parsing a DSL instance document with a “M” language definition. Enjoy!

Jeff Pinkston, the lead program manager on the “M” languages team has some questions that he’d love your feedback on:

• How do you think about “M” inter-operating with XML? XSD? Other data formats?
• Given that OO languages are nominally typed and “M” is structurally typed, what is the purpose of a type? How do you think about it?

The translation from Dutch is pretty good: “The better you can describe applications in models, the less code you need to write and the more transparency you provide to developers and others.” Computable spoke with Chris Sells. De programmamanager van de Connected Systems Divisie van Microsoft was in Nederland voor een Hot-or-Not lezing, georganiseerd door Sioux. The program manager of the Connected Systems Division of Microsoft in the Netherlands for a Hot-or-Not reading, organized by Sioux.

In Scott Hanselman’s April 2009 podcast, Visiting Fog Creek Software and Joel Spolsky, Joel talks about Wasabi, FogCreek’s VBScript compiler

Here. Our own Paul Vick

This year’s VSLive in Las Vegas (June 8-11), has three, count ’em three, “Oslo” talks! (And a Dublin talk to boot.) Just a few months ago, the “Oslo” team was giving all the talks and now there are so many of them I have to hear about them on the street! Our baby grew up so fast…

And as if that weren’t enough, Jon Flanders gave me a code for a discount:

This is a wonderful article on the use of an

The nice folks over at InfoQ have been building up some Oslo content and reporting on Oslo news. Check it out!

Here. Learn how Web developers can use

Here. Doug Purdy and Chris Sells will be giving their Mix

Doug Purdy and I will be giving an “M” talk about web stuff at this year’s Mix:

Learn how Web developers can use “M”, a new language for describing data, metadata and domain specific languages, to enhance RESTful services like HTTP, JSON, RSS/Atom, and more. Also see how “M” can be used on premise or in the cloud to achieve greater development productivity and to create more compelling customer experiences.

Stephen has three more installments in his series on modeling an application in Oslo: Discovery, Domain Entities and Refactoring

ExtractM is a sample command-line tool for extracting M source code from compiled M images by Shannon Koh, a developer on the