For those practitioners who are building software factories on our platform today I would like to direct you towards a blog entry by Jezz Santos: See here: http://blogs.msdn.com/jezzsa/archive/2007/10/29/packaging-building-software-factories-series.aspx

On Tuesday, October 30 th Microsoft announced an important set of technical investments and a new technology roadmap at the SOA and Business Process Conference. The code name for this is “Oslo” . This announcement had three parts: · V ision to significantly...

The first big deployment of Microsoft's Silverlight 1.0 technology went live yesterday (Tuesday), with the W eb site for Major League Baseball using it for interactive video content. http://mlb.mlb.com/index.jsp Another polished example of how WPF...

Here is an updated great overview of "Orcas" as of July 2007,by Microsoft veteran Tony Goodhew

August 6 th , 2007 Microsoft just released the final version of the “Team Development with Team Foundation Server” Guide. This guide has been in beta for the last couple of months. This guide shows you how to get the most out of Team Foundation...

It’s with great pleasure that I announce the availability of the Rosario CTP (officially known as Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System code name “Rosario” August 2007 CTP ). Customers can immediately begin downloading the VPC images and learning more...

The July 2007 CTP of the Guidance Automation Toolkit and Guidance Automation Extensions is a minor update to the previous February 2007 CTP, and includes the following fixes and improvements: – Support for both Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio...

In the pipeline is an MSDN technical article based on a large government TFS implementation (can’t say which one yet J ). It will be technical content to educate the MSDN readers on "how to extend TFS functionality" with practical 'real world' examples...

There will be a Service Factory Customization Workshop on Microsoft’s main Redmond WA campus July 30th – Aug 1st 2007. This 3 day workshop will walk a limited number of Microsoft partners through the comprehensive process of adding a new model (an entity...

A few weeks ago, I and Don Smith (Senior Product Manager Patterns & Practice Group) recorded a web cast on how development fits into the overall SOA story from Microsoft. And in particular, how Tools and modeling fit in. This web cast is about 1 hour...

At the request of EPG, Microsoft, Jezz Santos (Microsoft MCS) has created, along with the product group, a two part short whitepaper series on ‘Packaging and Building Software Factories, with Visual Studio and Team Foundations Server’. The first paper...

Many folks have asked me to (simply) explain what a Software Factory is, and why should they care? To that end I have created an illustrated story board. It walks through a high level value proposition of software factories using a car analogy most folks...

This blog talks about my area of work at Microsoft within the Enterprise Partner Group (EPG) at Microsoft. Here you will find blog entries about software factories, Application Lifecycle Management, User Experience, and just general enterprise distributed...