Taking a look at how to build a Progressive Fluent Interface which is a DSL where the options can and will change as you progress through the syntax. This is a useful form of a fluent interface if the want to be able to skillfully guide the user down only one path at a time.

I see M as a whole lot of effort trying to optimize something that is really not that interesting, complex or really very hard. I look at the M language, the way that you worked with, the tooling and the API and I would fully agree that it is a nice parser generator. What it is not, I have to say...

Take a look at how to create a simple Fluent DSL which is built via Method Chaining. We will build this DSL from the ground up and talk about the various decisions which were made along the way. This is just a simple example of how you can create a internal DSL for your application with very litt...

This might be interesting for people that use popular IoC container for .NET - Autofac. Now it is possible to configure this container with the custom DSL syntax that is more flexible and efficient than plain XML configuration.

Let's implement lightweight EntLib Exception Handling with the Autofac IoC and Boo DSL

A while ago I talked about persistent DSL caching. I was asked why my solution was not a builtin part of Rhino DSL. The reason for that is that this is actually a not so simple problem. Let me point out a few of the issues that are non obvious. Need to handle removal of scripts Need to handle...

Jeremy Miller is looking for a DSL that reads like natural language. My immediate response was that it is not practical, because I assumed he wanted very natural language, which is still not possible to do without extremely high budget. Limiting the problem to just reads like a natural language redu...

I said that I would post about it, so here is the high level design for generic implementation of natural language looking parsing. Let us explore the problem scenario first. We want to be able to build this language, without having to build a full blown language from scratch:

We just finished the final iteration for this and went gold. Although this post has more marketing then I would normally post here, I at least wanted to let fellow Linq fanatics that our 'semi-secret' project with a few companies you might know has at least for now reached a milestone. And who co...

A C# implementation of a domain specific language for configuration of a new open source project: mite. Rhino.DSL is used to create a DSL to define migration environments. The syntax for the Boo based DSL is concise and allows the configuration to be kept DRY. There are many advantages to usi...

Nice article on DSLs in the .NET space

The book is now available for as part of the Manning Early Access Program. Chapter 1 to 4 are already there, but they are there in their nearly raw format. That means that they have not been edited yet, and I didn't put in the results from the review cycle that we did yet. Ayende would appreci...

Visual Studio DSL Tools team merges with Visual Studio eXtensibility Ecosystem team

The DSL Tools V1 for Visual Studio 2005 has just been released to the VSIP members