Expressing Contract Explicitness with a custom Domain Specific Language

Seems like Edward and myself are ready to talk a bit more in-depth about what we are working on. We are currently playing around with some thoughts of a service and data contract DSL and try to implement it with with Microsoft's early versions of the DSL Toolkit. A bit of a pain, but the whole story is just evolving...

If you are interested on the Why and also the How of DSLs – not just from a Microsoft-branded perspective - go and read Martin Fowler’s most inspiring article on Language Workbenches.
Also go to an older blog post from me musing about the whole Code vs. Contract first vs. Explicitness vs. Anything-else-in-the-world story and how it relates to DSLs.

This is very exciting stuff (ooops, I was meant to avoid this term :)).

Comments

[Damon Carr]

Guys, Very cool.. I just had one of the first articles published (at least that I have seen approach the DSL from this prespective) on the use of the DSL Workbench. You can find it here: http://www.developerland.com/DotNet/Design/444.aspx I'd love any feedback. Excellent work on just about everything you guys touch. Kind Regards, Damon Carr