Domain-Specific Languages

posted by  mvrok (14)  10 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

I'm quite attracted by the idea of domain-specific languages, but so far I haven't found a satisfactory way to create them.

For a while I was writing a lot of MSBuild tasks.  I found the programming model for a MSBuild tasks to be a bit awkward.  You have to write properties where fields should be sufficient.  For MSBuild to see a property accessor, it has to be 'public', even though you don't want anyone else to ever use the accessor (not even yourself!).  

So, I wrote a tool that generates the boilerplate MSBuild task code.  (I also took the op