Question

I have the Domain-Specific development with VS DSL Tools book by Cook, Jones, et.all

The book and various tutorials online mention a NamedDomainClass tool that should be present in the DSL Designer toolbox. I have installed VS 2010 beta 2 on Win XP – however this tool is missing in the toolbox.
I’ve created a project using the Minimal project template as mentioned in the book. I have 12 tools showing up including the Domain Class tool.

I’ve searched online and apparently no one else has this problem.

• Can someone confirm that it’s missing
  in VS 2010 Beta 2?
• If not how can I get it
  to show up ?
• Is there any way in which I can add a Domain class instance and tweak it so that it becomes a Named Domain Class? The book mentions that there is some must-be-unique validation and serialization changes that are done by the NamedDomainClass tool.

I’ve tried ‘Choose Items’ context menu on the DSL Designer category. These tools apparently are added dynamically ; do not show up in the lists on the dialog that comes up.

Answer 1

This question was answered in the same post on the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Domain-Specific Languages (DSL) & Modeling Tools Extensibility forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/dslvsarchx/thread/a2221648-6e92-49ba-b223-8df98e2cdfdd

I have confirmed that the Named Domain
Class has no longer existed in the
toolbox. It exists in the VS 2008’s
toolbox.

You can create a Named Domain Class in
VS 2010 by:
1. Add a Domain Class and diagram
2. Add a DomainProperty and named it as “Name”
3. In the Name DomainProperty’s propertes, change “Is Element Name” to
true

Hope it helps.

Hongye Sun [MSFT]

FYI this was a bug in the SDK for Beta
2. It has now been fixed.

Regards, Duncan [MSFT]