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Book Description

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 includes

  • Determining whether DSLs will work for you

  • Comparing DSLs with other approaches to model-driven development

  • Defining, tuning, and evolving DSLs: 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 needs


  • List of Figures
    List of Tables

    Foreword

    Preface

    About the Authors
    Chapter 1 Domain-Specific Development
    Chapter 2 Creating and Using DSLs
    Chapter 3 Domain Model Definition
    Chapter 4 Presentation
    Chapter 5 Creation, Deletion, and Update Behavior
    Chapter 6 Serialization
    Chapter 7 Constraints and Validation
    Chapter 8 Generating Artifacts
    Chapter 9 Deploying a DSL
    Chapter 10 Advanced DSL Customization
    Chapter 11 Designing a DSL
    Index 

    Table of Contents

    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright Page
    3. Table of Contents
    4. Microsoft .NET Development Series
    5. Figures
    6. Tables
    7. Foreword
    8. Preface
    9. About the Authors
    10. 1. Domain-Specific Development
    11. 2. Creating and Using DSLs
    12. 3. Domain Model Definition
    13. 4. Presentation
    14. 5. Creation, Deletion, and Update Behavior
    15. 6. Serialization
    16. 7. Constraints and Validation
    17. 8. Generating Artifacts
    18. 9. Deploying a DSL
    19. 10. Advanced DSL Customization
    20. 11. Designing a DSL
    21. Index
    22. Footnotes
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