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Problems with DSL Tools Version 1

Hello

I recently installed Visual Studio SDK September 06 which includes DSL Tools V1. The new features are really great and I was stunned what progress was made since the last version.
But now I encountered two problems. A small one and a bigger one.

Let's start with the bigger one: I created an language called ETDL. In the Debugging solution, when I create a new ETDL file, I'm able to open it in the designer and add shapes and connectors and stuff. But then, when I close the file and reopen it, I get an error saying "Cannot load xxx.etdl: An item with the same key has already been added." or the file is opened in the designer but the location of all shapes weren't saved.

The second problem is a small one. I added some element tools for the toolbox, including some custom icon bmp's. But in the designer's toolbox, some icons are not displayed, some are not.

Thanks for your help in advance!

Best regards

Christian Schweizer - Junior Software Engineer - ELCA Informatics AG

swissclash79

Here are some more information about the error I get:

Stacktrace:

swissclash79

Hi swissclash

We've not seen this issue.

Are you able to send us your model file to investigate?

You can mail it to gareth.jones@microsoft.com if you're able to.

Gareth Jones - Developer - DSL Tools & Software Factories Platform [MSFT]

GarethJ - MSFT

Hi Gareth

Thanks for your reply. I have just created a new DSL solution to see if I can reproduce the error. I created just two domain classes, a comment class which inherites from a root class and its representing shape class. This also results in the same error as I mentioned above.

I'll mail you this dsl file as soon as possible.

Best regards
Christian

Christian Schweizer - Junior Software Engineer - ELCA Informatics AG

Christian Schweizer

Gareth

I found the solution for my problem. In my model, I'vd defined a class "Comment" which was mapped to a shape "CommentShape".
When I renamed Comment to ModelComment, everything worked fine again.

Christian Schweizer - Junior Software Engineer - ELCA Informatics AG

Christian Schweizer

Hi Christian,

I've managed to repro this, but I couldn't make it fail with a model element named Comment,

However, it fails every time if the shape name is CommentShape.

Can you confirm if this is where you're seeing the failure please as your last post sounds liek changing the domainclass name fixed the problem, not changing the shape name.

Gareth Jones - Developer - DSL Tools & Software Factories Platform [MSFT]

GarethJ - MSFT

Hello Gareth

I can confirm that the error happens when the shape is named "CommentShape". Somehow, I didn't mixed this up in my last post.
For me, everything works fine now, thanks for your investigation anyway. I am really impressed by the DSL Tools project and looking forward to dig in deeper in this!

Best regards
Christian

Christian Schweizer - Junior Software Engineer - ELCA Informatics AG

Christian Schweizer

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