Microsoft and MetaCase Co-Organize Domain-Specific Language workshop 

MetaCase have been asked by Microsoft to co-organize a Workshop on Agile Development with Domain-Specific Languages at XP 2005 in the UK in June. Microsoft's Alan Cameron Wills approached MetaCase CTO Steven Kelly with the suggestion of a joint workshop, and the resulting workshop was fast-tracked by the XP 2005 program committee.

The workshop will focus on how Domain-Specific Languages can form the most agile of approaches to software development, and how tools such as MetaCase's MetaEdit+ and Microsoft's forthcoming Visual Studio Team System DSL Tools allow teams to develop support for Domain-Specific Modeling in a fraction of the time previously required.

Co-organizing the workshop is a natural progression from the previous co-operation between MetaCase and Microsoft. MetaCase's workshops at OOPSLA, the central annual DSM event, have regularly been attended by leading Microsoft figures such as Jack Greenfield, Steve Cook and Stuart Kent - authors of Microsoft's "Software Factories" book and strategy. Microsoft were also the first party MetaCase contacted when founding the DSM Forum, where together with other leading DSM tool providers they work to promote DSM and mutual co-operation between vendors.