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June 9, 2009 oslofeaturedcontent

From DSLs & Models to “Quadrant” w/ “Oslo” May CTP

Dana Kaufman, a PM on the extended "Oslo" team, has been blogging a series of articles on the definition of a set of M” types, the associated M” language definition for a domain-specific language (DSL) and concluding in how that data can be visualized and manipulated in "Quadrant" (the first two parts are available now and the third is coming). Enjoy!
June 4, 2009 oslofeaturedcontent

Actipro’s SyntaxEditor Adds Support for “Oslo”!

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 "Oslo" language definition in a .mg file. The demo is free and one of the samples is a fun little Intellipad clone. Check it out!
May 29, 2009 oslofeaturedcontent

MGDisplay: Visualize Parsed “Oslo” Grammars

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!

May 28, 2009 oslofeaturedcontent

Questions from Pinky on “Oslo”

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

The Oslo” team is just at the beginning of our last real milestone before the PDC in November, so the answers to these questions help us to decide how to spend our time. I know that it seems like Microsoft has the ability to crank out the great works of Shakespeare, but we’re limited by time and resources, too, so if you have an opinion on these questions, drop by Pinky’s place and let him know what you think. Or, if you’ve got other suggestions about how to improve Oslo”, drop them into our suggestion box!

May 5, 2009 oslofeaturedcontent

Dutch “Computable” Interviews Chris Sells on Oslo

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.

But they chose the strangest picture…

May 3, 2009 oslofeaturedcontent

Joel Spolsky talks about Wasabi: His FogBugz DSL

In Scott Hanselman's April 2009 podcast, Visiting Fog Creek Software and Joel Spolsky, Joel talks about Wasabi, FogCreek’s VBScript compiler, and he talks about it really being a subset of VBScript used specifically for bringing FogBugz to Unix and the CLR. In fact, it's a VBScript compiler built specifically to compile a single application, doing things like making the 5% of ADO.NET they use cross-platform. And just in case the point isn't completely obvious, Joel and Scott draw the conclusion for us: Wasabi is the domain-specific language just for FogBugz. Just another DSL in nature.
April 17, 2009 oslofeaturedcontent

CodeCast: Oslo and M with Paul Vick

Here. Our own Paul Vick is on CodeCast: The Late Night Show for .NET Developers, with your hosts Ken Levy, Gary Short, and Markus Egger. Enjoy!
April 11, 2009 oslofeaturedcontent

Three “Oslo” Talks at VSLive in June!

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:

If you register with code S9V10 you can get and all-access Passport Package for just $1,295, a savings of $400.00 off the standard price of $1,695.”

I know I loved MIX in Vegas last month and I’m jealous I don’t get to go back in June. Put some money down on 22 for me!