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Dimitris
Dimitris

Reputation: 2036

Declarative language support in .NET

I am developing a simulation engine with Visual Studio that will offer support for building business process simulations. One of the key features will be a declarative language that will allow business users to setup quickly a simulation model. I will give a very brief example of what I mean:

initialise simulation.

create 100 resources.

create 50 jobs.

create 2 teams of resources.

start simulation with 10 runs.

So I would like something similar to the above in Visual Studio to define the simulation models. Now I know how to do this with other environments like java and groovy but I need to develop it in VS as this is what my company uses. Any ideas as to what I can find in VS?

Cheers.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 411

Answers (2)

Eyvind
Eyvind

Reputation: 5261

Since you mention Groovy, I would think that either IronPython or IronRuby would fit the bill. Ruby is supposed to be well suited to DSL (domain specific language) programming.

Upvotes: 1

Cybersam
Cybersam

Reputation: 236

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is not exactly a simulator or simulation language but the framework supports declarative programming and robust software development (which may be customized to perform the type of simulations).

Visual Studio 2010 (VS2010) comes with WF that enables users to create software programs or long-running processes as a sequence of tasks (or workflow). A WF workflow can be expressed declaratively in an XML markup language called XAML or with a visual designer tool, or procedurally through a .NET-supported language like C# or VB.NET. All the above approaches are supported in VS2010.

WF provides a robust runtime that support the disparate blocks of activities in a workflow to run asynchronously. In addition, the current WF also has support for messaging through web service or WCF services and data integration with data sources through ADO.NET and other .NET data frameworks. A message- or data-driven application can be integrated into a WF workflow.

Upvotes: 0

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