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Friday, December 28, 2007 12:51 PM

Troubleshooting GAX/GAT installation issues

For all of you out there working on Software Factories or just automating Visual Studio using GAX/GAT we've put up a small tool named GAX Troubleshooter (yes, we didn't spend much time on naming it). Upgrading versions of GAX, installing and uninstalling...
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Thursday, October 18, 2007 1:19 AM

T4 Editor beta released!

After a few weeks of lots of hard work we were finally able to release a pretty stable release of our T4 Editor out to the community at http://www.t4editor.net . It currently support VS 2005 and VS 2008 beta 2 and has most (but not all yet) of the bells...
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Thursday, July 12, 2007 8:25 PM

VS: simply things which are incredibly hard

There are some very clear examples out there about what I mean when I talk about VS obscurity being a major pain for getting people extending the platform and trying to make my dream come true . As a rule of thumb people should know that if demostrating...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 10:17 PM

GAX/GAT for Orcas: coming soon!

If you're into extending Visual Studio then there are good news for you. Grigori Melnik, Product Manager for GAX/GAT from Microsoft p&p, has announced there will be a compatible version that runs on Orcas pretty soon.
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Thursday, June 07, 2007 6:04 PM

Adopting Software Factories Today == Clarius SFT

We just released the June 2007 CTP of our Clarius SFT including some new cool features to help in shortening the existing gap between current Software Factories-related technologies, like GAX/GAT and DSL Tools. This toolkit will help you in getting things...
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Thursday, June 07, 2007 2:42 AM

Adding Commands to a DSL from a 10,000ft view

The DSL Tools are a huge improvement towards getting a VS designer up and running in no time. They make a good job of keeping you abstracted at a 10,000ft view from the inner workings of a Visual Studio designer. You drag and drop shapes all around, defining...
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Thursday, June 07, 2007 2:23 AM

Deploying Guidance Packages and DSLs the easy way

Let’s do a 15 seconds recap on what currently GAX/GAT and DSL Tools offer regarding deployment. GAT : uses Visual Studio Setup projects (can you feel the pain already?) to deploy your custom guidance packages. If you don’t need anything beyond the very...
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Thursday, June 07, 2007 1:18 AM

Editing Text Template (T4) files: the Visual Studio/Notepad vs. SFT experience

If you have ever worked with GAX/GAT and/or the DSL Tools chances are that you had to look at existing templates and maybe customize them or create your own. Currently none of these two technologies offers you any remedies for the pain that is browsing...
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