After many months of promising , the wait is over. Smart Client Software Factory for Visual Studio 2008 has shipped! (not shiped) Highlights of the new release include: Runs on GAT/GAX 1.4 Full support for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Supports Entlib 3.1 Several fixes for community identified bugs (partial list below from Ezequiel , more at his post) WPF C# View is not being disposed correctly View does not properly dispose Install fails when VB is not installed Docs on MSDN Get the factory which