Abu's blog : OSLO

"M" is "Oslo" Modeling Language Language > Tools - Query Analyzer or SQL Server Management Sudio for SQL and “Intellipad” for "M"

abu — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:12:00 GMT

The evolution of programming languages have been categorized as 1GL, 2GL, 3GL, 4GL....E.g. Machine Language -> Assembly Language -> C / Fortran -> SQL / Focus 4GL. The evolution of these languages are towards Low level language to High Level language.

In 1995, I stated learning computer languages. First I learned C, just after going through Fundamentals of Computer. In my first Academic project using C, I spent lots of time only for writing thousands lines of code. During this period I have gone through System Analysis and Design - where I learned about how to translate / transform the business application into computer systems [application]. Then I learned C++ and OOP, it was too nice experience, where I could compare the whole thing to real life cases. But it was amazing when I came to know SQL - real 4GL... Writing SQL Statement is about "WHAT" not "HOW" [With few exceptions - Query Hints etc.]. Using SQL generally few lines code computes the values from a set of collections as the resultset/output. Then I started my career with one of the biggest giant - Petroleum Company in India using Sybase and Power Builder. Here I got opportunity to work with all my favourite technologies.

About the future or coming technologies, termed as NEXT GEN Application, I expressed very early in one of my post published on September 15, 2005 Real Challenge to the architect for architecting and designing for FUTURE application development’s method.

That time I was thinking that DSL, ORM, Modeling language were dream and will be goals for the language developer.

Now Microsoft comes up to this with a fantastic way!!!

In last version - .NET Framework 3.5, we got LINQ, LINQ to SQL, LINQ to XML, LING to Object.... Here we focused more on the Entities, Visual Studio writes the code for data manipulation using SQL/XPath all underlying technologies... we stopped thinking about implementation to map the data source to object classes for .NET to some extents. Here we got LINQ to SQL, LINQ to XML and so on so...

This is not the "Full Stop" ("."). Along with more advancement, Microsoft came up with "M". It is "Oslo" Modeling Language which is a declarative language for working with data in more readable way for Structuring the the data as well as for querying too. It's not about how data is stored or accessed, even not by implementation of specific technology.

M builds on three basic concepts: values, types, and extents.

A value is the data which follows the rule
A type describes a set of values.
An extent provides dynamic storage for values.

M has been designed to map the relational model too. Using “Intellipad” tool of “Oslo”, model the data and the corresponding T-SQL statements generated by the compiler. Here “M”->SQL translates “M” "modules" to SQL "schemas."

Oslo - Microsoft Official Site

abu — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:22:00 GMT

Microsoft’s forthcoming modeling platform is OSLO. More on http://www.microsoft.com/soa/products/oslo.aspx

"Oslo" realted Downloads are available here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/oslo/cc748654.aspx

"Oslo" SDK download - Download the "Oslo" SDK October 2008 CTP

C# Dynamic - CSharp's new feature of the coming version 4.0

abu — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:50:00 GMT

Very good resources for the coming version...

Sam Ng

Dynamic in C# Part One
Dynamic in C# Part Two

Chris Burrows

Eric Lippert

PDC

TL16: The Future of C#
- Anders Hejlsberg
TL10: Deep Dive: Dynamic Languages in .NET
- Speaker: Jim Hugunin
TL11: An Introduction to Microsoft F#
- Speaker: Luca Bolognese
TL12: Future Directions for Microsoft Visual Basic
- Speaker: Paul Vick and Lucian Wischik
TL44 IronRuby: The Right Language for the Right Job
- Speaker: John Lam
TL46: Microsoft Visual C# IDE: Tips and Tricks
- Dustin Campbell
TL54: Natural Interop with Silverlight, Office and Python
- Alex Turner
TL57: A Panel on the Future of Programming Languages
- G. Bracha, D.Crockford, A. Hejlsberg, E. Meijer, W.Schulte, J. Siek

OSLO - Includes .NET Framework 4.0

abu — Thu, 22 May 2008 18:26:00 GMT

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/oct07/10-30OsloPR.mspx

http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/adlaim/archive/2007/11/30/net-framework-4-0-quot-biztalk-soa-express-framework-quot.aspx

http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/adlaim/archive/2008/01/22/net-framework-4-0-quot-biztalk-soa-express-framework-quot-part2.aspx

"Orcas" - March 2007 Community Technology Preview (CTP) - Software downloaded site has been extended until March 13, 2008

abu — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:22:00 GMT

Thanks to Microsoft; great news for the developer, those who like to play with new technologies... Microsoft Pre-release Software Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" can be downloaded till 13 March, 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=B533619A-0008-4DD6-9ED1-47D482683C78&displaylang=en