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Thursday, November 05, 2009 4:10 PM

Updating the factories to VS2010

This is just a quick post to let you know that I just posted an update over on the p&p team blog . Since this effort spans GAT/GAX and 3 factories, it makes more sense to post the updates there instead of here. Sorry for any confusion. Feel free to
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Monday, March 10, 2008 7:10 PM

Using MessageContracts and DataContracts

Users of the Service Factory often ask about the rationale behind the required use of MessageContracts even though the use of MessageContracts aren't mandated by WCF. I've answered this question in other venues, but it seemed like a good thing to put
Posted by donsmith | 3 Comments
Monday, May 07, 2007 11:15 PM

A time for reflection and assessment

Wow, it's hard to believe it has been almost a year since the patterns & practices team released our first software factories. Remember when the early customer previews were called Baseline Architecture Toolkits? Oh, the nostalgia :) We could have
Posted by donsmith | 9 Comments
Friday, April 06, 2007 11:28 PM

First Service Factory v3 Community Drop

Okay, we're off and running now. Earlier today I posted the first of many community drops for Service Factory v3 - don't let "build 19" fool you - this is the first one. It took us longer than expected to get this one out the door, but we're all set now.
Posted by donsmith | 26 Comments
Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:04 AM

Now Available: Aaron's new Service Factory article on MSDN

Steven just told me that Aaron Skonnard's latest Service Factory article about the December release was just published through his Service Station column in the MSDN Magazine . Talk about timing ... sweet. Even though it was written and finished before
Posted by donsmith | 8 Comments
Tuesday, January 09, 2007 11:30 PM

... come and get yer Service Factory!

That's right ladies and gentlemen, the December release of the Web Service Software Factory and a VB.NET version is now available for your consumption, modification, and production pleasures :) Okay, I'm just going to do 3 things in this post since I
Posted by donsmith | 24 Comments
Tuesday, January 09, 2007 9:35 PM

Emerging Guidance

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Friday, October 06, 2006 3:30 AM

Handcrafting WCF-friendly WSDLs

It's 10:15 pm and I'm still in the office, but I really think I should get this entry posted before I head home - or it won't ever get posted. I was supposed to be working on my demo for my Service Factory session at the SOA Conference tomorrow, but I
Posted by donsmith | 13 Comments
Thursday, August 31, 2006 12:21 PM

WCF Guidance Packages now available for consumption

If you've been following the Service Factory project , you'll know that we had to put the WCF guidance on hold for a little while as we were getting the ASMX Service Factory released . Well ever since it was released, we've been working on getting caught
Posted by donsmith | 6 Comments
Wednesday, August 09, 2006 12:27 PM

Partial Classes & the Service Factory

I just posted the Service Factory Hands-on Labs to the community workspace and I learned something while I was putting them together. So, I'm going to do 2 things in this post. First, I'm going to do a little cheerleading for partial classes, then I'll
Posted by donsmith | 5 Comments
Sunday, July 30, 2006 3:54 PM

Service Factory now available for download!

Before I get ahead of myself, which comes pretty easy for me J , here’s the link to learn more about and download the Service Factory . Wow, I’ve been waiting 8 months to write this blog entry. After months of planning, arguing, development, sleep deprivation,
Posted by donsmith | 11 Comments
Sunday, July 30, 2006 2:38 PM

Just Published: Service Factory ARCast

Ron Jacobs did a load of ARCasts at Tech-Ed in Boston this year. One of them was with Shy Cohen and I about the Service Factory . Well, I just got an email from Ron that he's gotten around to publishing it on Skyscrapr . I can't imagine how many of these
Posted by donsmith | 1 Comments
Monday, July 17, 2006 2:35 PM

How Teams Build Services

With all this talk of software factories, it's important that we understand the different ways teams will use them to build services. I talk to a lot of customers and, of course, there are several different approaches a team might choose. I hope this
Posted by donsmith | 2 Comments
Monday, May 15, 2006 3:45 AM

Service Factory: Editing (part 1)

For this installment, I'm illustrating 2 examples of what I call "level 1 changes" to a guidance package. These are the easiest kinds of changes that don't even require any code changes. I'm also using the (very improved) May community drop and you'll
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Attachment(s): http://dev4net.members.winisp.net/blogcasts/ServiceFactory-Editing1.wmv
Friday, April 28, 2006 4:41 PM

Service Factory: Entity Translation

For the third installment I've decided to talk about the entity translation (mapping) capability of the guidance package. Specifically, this is mapping between the entities that are [de]serialized to/from the wire representation and the entities that
Posted by donsmith | 11 Comments
Attachment(s): http://dev4net.members.winisp.net/blogcasts/ServiceFactory-Mapping.wmv
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