Microsoft “Oslo” May CTP available (Including Quadrant)

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
• Meta models for UML2, no quadrant customization yet + other "Oslo"-Provided Domains
• Tons of improvements in Intellipad including a new “DSL Grammar Mode” with much easier handling of grammars, input and output.
  And intellipad got much faster.
• Lots of new contents on MSDN and the “Oslo” Dev Center
  • "Oslo” Learning Center
  • "Oslo" and Model-Driven Applications
  • Getting Started with "Oslo" Tutorial
  • Documentation on "Oslo" Repository

For more detailed information check out the team announcement and the release notes.

New Installer

Empty Quadrant Workspace

Intellipad Splitting

And yes, I’ll be blogging about my web-layout DSL 🙂

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Can’t get intellipad up and running (solved)

Update: Switched off 3D-Support in the Fusion-VM-Settings. Everything works fine now.

I need to do some intellipad screenshots for my article on DSLs, but on my Parallels XP installation intellipad just crashes on every start. Great! A good reason to test Windows 7 on a VM Ware Fusion. But now, even worse, the whole VM crashes every time I startup intellipad 🙂

It just hangs as this screenshot shows. Any ideas?