Domain-Specific Development with Visual Studio DSL Tools

This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version.Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs)--languages geared to specific vertical or horizontal areas of interest--are generating growing excitement from software engineers and architects. DSLs bring new agility to the creation and evolution of software, allowing selected design aspects to be expressed in terms much closer to the system requirements than standard program code, significantly reducing development costs in large-scale projects and product lines. In this breakthrough book, four leading experts reveal exactly how DSLs work, and how you can make the most of them in your environment. With Domain-Specific Development with Visual Studio DSL Tools , you'll begin by mastering DSL concepts and techniques that apply to all platforms. Next, you'll discover how to create and use DSLs with the powerful new Microsoft DSL Tools--a toolset designed by this book's authors. Learn how the DSL Tools integrate into Visual Studio--and how to define DSLs and generate Visual Designers using Visual Studio's built-in modeling technology. In-depth coverage includesDetermining whether DSLs will work for you Comparing DSLs with other approaches to model-driven development Defining, tuning, and evolving models, presentation, creation, updates, serialization, constraints, validation, and more Creating Visual Designers for new DSLs with little or no coding Multiplying productivity by generating application code from your models with easy-to-use text templates Automatically generating configuration files, resources, and other artifacts Deploying Visual Designers across the organization, quickly and easily Customizing Visual Designers for specialized process needsList of FiguresList of TablesForewordPrefaceAbout the AuthorsChapter 1 Domain-Specific DevelopmentChapter 2 Creating and Using DSLsChapter 3 Domain Model DefinitionChapter 4 PresentationChapter 5 Creation, Deletion, and Update BehaviorChapter 6 SerializationChapter 7 Constraints and ValidationChapter 8 Generating ArtifactsChapter 9 Deploying a DSLChapter 10 Advanced DSL CustomizationChapter 11 Designing a DSLIndex