Sorry for the delayed reply. Vascation and finalizing the V1 release has taken its toll.

When V1 of DSL Tools (with the VS SDK V3 to be released in early September), you'll be able to redistribute the dsl tools runtime (redist), that requires VS Standard or above to be used.

You can then install your own tools that make use of that.

The text templating engine is architected so that you can create your own hosts and/or directive processors which allow you to host it in different ways, and which allow templates to accept different input sources, respectively. You can distribute those with your own tools. There is samples shipped with DSL Tools, illustrating how to build your own hosts and directive processors.

Hope that helps

Wade,

In case you are interested, there is an implementation of a text templating host available at http://www.gotdotnet.com/Workspaces/Workspace.aspx?id=dae43a90-7893-493c-804a-e1f7537732c0.

This is more complete than the implementation in the DSL documentation, and is designed to be used outside Visual Studio (i.e. when you can't use the VS host implementation). You can programmatically control the behaviour of the host (e.g. by specifying where to look for include files, which standard imports and assembly references to include, how often to recycle the temporary app domain etc). The host also looks in the GAC to resolve assembly references.

It also includes an alternative command line tool that allows you to specify these settings in an XML file.

You don't have to join the workspace to get either the binaries or the source code and unit tests. The code is built against the June 06 VS SDK - I'll update it as necessary when v1 ships.

Duncan