Working with Domain-Specific Language Solutions

Domain-Specific Language Tools lets you work in Visual Studio to define a domain-specific language. You can define the elements of the language and how they appear in a diagram view and in the DSL Explorer, and customize many aspects of the language. The topics in this section show how to create a domain-specific language solution in Visual Studio, add elements to the language, customize their appearance, and add the elements to the toolbox of your domain-specific language designer.

In This Section

• Choosing a Domain-Specific Language Solution Template
  Provides an overview of the included solution templates for domain-specific languages. These include Minimal Language, Task Flow, Class Diagrams, and Component Models.

• Walkthrough: Creating a Domain-Specific Language Solution
  Shows how to create a domain-specific language. This walkthrough serves as the foundation for other walkthroughs provided in the documentation.

• Walkthrough: Customizing the Domain-Specific Language Definition
  Describes how to customize a domain-specific language. This walkthrough builds on the domain-specific language that you can create by following the other walkthrough in this section.

• Defining Domain Models
  Describes how to add elements to the model.

• Defining the Appearance of the Generated Language Designer
  Describes how to customize the appearance of model elements.

• Customizing Tools and the Toolbox
  Describes how to add icons for model elements to the toolbox.

• Customizing Serialization Behavior
  Describes how to add custom elements to the metadata.

See Also

Other Resources

Domain-Specific Languages

Change History

Date	History	Reason
July 2008	Rewrote and refactored project	Content bug fix.