Ted Neward and Danny Simmons of the ADO.NET team discuss the Entity Framework, ORMs and OSLO

Amanda Laucher talks about Oslo and its tools, Intellipad, M.exe – the M Compiler, MB.exe – MGrammar Compiler, and how they can be used to create a DSL. She demonstrates the creation of a demo DSL in Oslo.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Creating-DSLs-in-Oslo-Amanda-Laucher

David Langworthy and Jeff Pinkston introduce the what, why, and favorite features of “M” the new textual modeling language for .NET Developers.

“Oslo” is making news. We’re taking silos of proprietary, platform, and application data and opening it up for sharing. What gets shared? Deployment configuration, web services definitions, workflow definitions, and that’s just a start. Learn how to utilize platform models, how to extend models, and how to add your own models to the repository using the “Oslo” modeling language. Also learn how to version, secure, and deploy models.

The “Oslo” modeling language can define schemas and transformations over arbitrary text formats. This session shows you how to build your own Domain Specific Language using the “Oslo” SDK and how to apply your DSL to create an interactive text editing experience.