CopySourceAsHtml Add-In with Visual Studio 2008
CopySourceAsHtml (CSAH) is a small and nice add-in for Visual Studio 2005 to copy the selected source code html-formatted to the clipboard. This is very useful if you want to paste this code into your...
View ArticleWorkaround for Known Issue with TypeConverters in DSL Tools for Visual Studio
When I tried to add a Domain Property with a custom TypeConverter to my Domain Class I ran into serious problems. Sometimes it worked and this property was shown correctly in the properties window...
View ArticleCodegeneration with CodeSmith and Orcas T4
As a professional software developer you will come one day to the point where you want to generate some source code or text files instead of writing it yourself. I don’t speak about dynamic web pages...
View ArticleConnectors between compartment shape entries with DSL Tools – part 1
[Update (2008-05-21): This code is now hosted at CodePlex as part of JaDAL. And a follow-up article was published.] This is the first part of an article series to this topic on a library I wrote. At...
View ArticleConnectors between compartment shape entries with DSL Tools – part 2
[Update (2008-05-21): This code is now hosted at CodePlex as part of JaDAL. And a follow-up article was published.] Previously on… This article is part of a series. A table of contents can be found at...
View ArticleConnectors between compartment shape entries with DSL Tools – part 3
[Update (2008-05-21): This code is now hosted at CodePlex as part of JaDAL. And a follow-up article was published.] Previously on… This article is part of a series. The table of contents can be found...
View ArticleFinding and removing a default command in DSL Tools (part 4 of Compartment...
[Update (2008-05-21): This code is now hosted at CodePlex as part of JaDAL. And a follow-up article was published.] Previously on… This article is part of a series. A table of contents can be found at...
View ArticleSome great resources on VSX
As you all know I’m working with Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX) at the moment. VSX is a interesting field to work with but it is badly documented. There are some samples, some books, communities and...
View ArticleTo restrict dynamically the usage of Domain Properties in DSL Models
What’s the matter? If you define Domain Properties on your Domain Classes and Shapes, you can configure the way a user of your DSL can interact with this Domain Properties. With the properties Is...
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