28 Oct 2008

"Oslo" - Model Driven Development

Wow.. this session was intense. The session introduced Microsofts take on model driven development through textual and visual DSL's, model repository and model runtimes.

Some keywords:
- "M" - A language for specifying models - The spec will be "open sourced" to allow for everyone to create tools and runtimes for it.
- "Quadrant" and "IntelliPad" - Visual and textual tools for manipulating models.Integrates wit VisualStudio
- Runtimes for Models - WPF, WF, +++ already support this. More will come

I have to hear more to fully digest these ideas, but what I can see, this has a huge potential to change development.

We will get access to the previews of the "Oslo" tools (supplied in "the goods" today)

Come to think of it after 1-2days of thinking and 2 additional Oslo sessions. This looks very much like e.g. AdvantageGen used for our internal 'Gazelle' application. Using this approach will create bindings to the repository vendor, much like the Gen tools do. It willbe very interesting to see how this is recieved and adopted by the community (and internally in our company).

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