During this past month I've been working in a new T4 template editor as a part of the SFT. If you're working with dsl or gax you already know, how the editor looks when you try to edit a text template file, it looks like this: So now you can have a fully colorized text editor for your T4 templates like the ASP.NET Vs editor and you can get it now downlaoding the ClariuS Software Factories Toolkit here. Colorizing, Intellisense and Validation In this release it's providing colorizing and intellisense...

Today we shipped the June CTP of the Clarius Software Factories Toolkit, which includes a new version of the Recipe Designer. The main change what I've been working on, is the serialization behavior in order to support round tripping, beside that was an interesting opportunity to work implementing a custom serialization in a Dsl. So now if you change the .xml extension of the recipe definition file with .recipe extension, you'll get a graphical representation of your recipe, the only constraint that...

The Software Factories Toolkit June CTP is finally out and the key improvements in this release are: - Recipe Designer with a redesigned user experiencie and round tripping support, so it could uses the .xml recipe files as is. - T4 Templates Editor, an useful editor with colorizing, intellisense and support to preview transformation in design time. - Multi package setup wizard, a recipe which generate a wix setup project with all the package contained in a solution. The most interesting thing here,...