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T4 Editor v1.0 RTM finally available!

After lots and lots of hard work I'm very proud to announce that my team shipped v1.0 of the Clarius T4 Editor today. We've been insanely struggling to get the bits finished during the last few months; you know, extending Visual Studio for simple stuff...

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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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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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...

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...

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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Clarius SFT February 2007 CTP is available !!

Before you even mention this… yes… it’s March already… I’m proud to announce that one week after the GAX February 2007 CTP release (aka v1.2) we are making available our Clarius Software Factories Toolkit February 2007...

SFT: the bridge between GAX, GAT, DSL and DSD

For the last couple of months the SFT Team at Clarius has been working hard to get the first Clarius Software Factories Toolkit CTP bits out of the door for the community to have an early peek. We’re aiming at making the Clarius SFT a must have...
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