An approach for development, of domain-specific visual languages
Domain spccific modeling (DSM) is a software engineering approach that supposes to develop domain-oriented visual languages, methods and tools. Some approach to support DSM based on using Microsoft Visio 2003/.Net is presented. This DSM-platform is chosen because of independence, small size and easiness of distribution and dissemination of target DSM-tools. Our approach provides repository development (modeling and generation) and suggests some architectural pattern for MVC-based development of graphical tools using Microsoft Visio 2003. We also describe some restrictions of our approach and Microsoft Visio as DSM-platform. Finally, we present, a toolkit that has been developed on the base of our DSM-approach for visual modeling of software/hardware broadcasting product line in Saint-Petersburg software company "DIP".