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,...

Some weeks delayed but is finally out!, this new Febrary 2007 CTP basically has support for Vista and includes another minor bug fixes. The most relevant bug fixes are the follow: Support for Windows Vista Guidance Navigator performance and display improvements Handling of read-only .gpstate files Use of standard system colors in wizards and dialogs Fixes to registration recipes Tom has published a detailed description of this new release here. Download the new GAX Feb 2007 CTP here...

There are an easily way to change the position, size and order of the swimlane shapes in your dsl. To do that, you just have to create a partial class of the swimlane that you want to modify its boundary and then override its BoundRules property, like this: Also you must create the BoundRules custom class and override the GetCompliantBounds method which returns the rectangle in which the swimlane will be painted. This method receives the shape and the proposed rectangle, with those values you can...

Aaron Skonnard published an article on MSDN Magazine in which gives an overview about the WSSF version 2 and all the related things of this version. You can check the post here. Aaron also published on this past december and another article about WSSF V1 (ASMX) here. http://msdn.microsoft.com/m...