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It has been more quiet around “Oslo” the last month. Maybe just about everybody is on vacations. Or people feel that everything will change with the PDC in November and are afraid of publishing nonsense.
Nonetheless, I felt it’s time for an update on what I think, heard and read about “Oslo”.
I divided my post [...]

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The "Oslo” team has released the third CTP of Microsoft’s forthcoming modeling platform.
Some of the  changes are:

Quadrant is included (Q&A)
MGrammar and M are partially merged. One tool, one specification, but still *.mg and *.m files. The goal is, to have one language one day. Awaiting more information here.
Some rather minor language changes [...]

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Just my random reaction to 2009 Lang.NET Symposium – Language and Data.
As all of us know these days, Oslo is about a language, a repository and Quadrant. We all know the hard parts are the language and quadrant.
I have the gut feeling that the repository just is about the data backing for  the glue [...]

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Scott Hanselman about Oslo

Doug and Chris will talk about Developing RESTful Services and Clients with "M" at MIX . Scott had a chance to see a preview and posted about it:
Mix: Getting my head around Oslo, M and MGrammar

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Microsoft’s upcoming “Oslo” modeling initiative is about tools and languages. MGraph is the piece within the language “M” that defines values, while MSchema is for schemas, functions and constraints and MGrammar is for textual DSLs. “Oslo” is still CTP and it will take some time until all concepts are available for production use.
By then, Microsoft [...]

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I drafted Fowlers state-machine example with MGrammar. While doing so I found a few things I would like to see optimized or find better solutions for.

New line handling. I would like to express one required new line, when it is required, but then ignore all the others. Forum discussion.I could make new lines part of [...]

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The Oslo SDK is available for download: Oslo Developer Center
Microsoft also did a good job writing a lot of examples, documentation and tutorials about Oslo, M and MGrammar and the Oslo Repository.

Microsoft Modeling Platform (code named “Oslo”)
Model-Driven Development in “Oslo”

M vs. MGrammar
MGrammar looks quite interesting. As I can see, M is defined using MGrammar while [...]

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Update: Post-PDC: Again, what is “Oslo”? M, MGrammar, Quadrant, Repository, textual DSLs, DSL Tools, UML-Modeling (November 2008)
I just “scanned” the PDC Session Timeline and the Sessions I would have liked to attend if I were in LA.
As soon as I find resources like videos or blog entries regarding these sessions, I’ll add the links [...]

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Update: Post-PDC: Again, what is “Oslo”? M, MGrammar, Quadrant, Repository, textual DSLs, DSL Tools, UML-Modeling (November 2008)
One month ago I posted on Microsoft and their heavily discussed facts and rumors about the “Oslo” modeling initiative. Since then VS2010 and .NET Framework 4 has officially been released. But still “Oslo” isn’t totally unveiled!
Oslo Facts and Rumors
Microsoft [...]

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