Developing RESTful Services and Clients with "M"

2. Developing RESTful Services and Clients with "M" Chris Sells (csells) Douglas Purdy (douglasp) Microsoft Corporation

3. demo "MUrl" A DSL for RESTful Clients

4. What is "M"? A language for specifying data language PeopleLang { syntax Main = "Person" name:Text "Age" "=" age:Integer32 "End Person" } Languages Values type Person { Name : Text; Age : Integer32; } People: Person*; Schemas People { { Name=“douglasp”, Age = 37 } } XSLT XML XSD

5. demo “M” in a Nutshell How I used “M” to build MUrl…

6. Why Should You Care? “M” will make it easier to design, develop, and manage applications We are using “M” to build “Oslo” (our effort to make model-driven applications mainstream) .NET DSLs DSLs RUNTIMES “MWeb” ASP.NET We are developing DSLs for our key .NET Runtimes “MService” WCF “MEntity” EF You can leverage the same tools to embed “M” directly in your applications Base Language SQL/XML Mappings We are working hard to make “M” ubiquitous across platforms M4M

7. demo "MService" A DSL for RESTful Services

8. announcing "M" Specification Community

9. Next Steps USE THE BITS http://msdn.microsoft.com/oslo GIVE US FEEDBACK csells@microsoft.com douglasp@microsoft.com PARCIPATE IN THE SPEC PROCESS http://msdn.microsoft.com/oslo/msc

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