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

For some time now I've been working on a project that I've not been able to talk about. Well today, I am finally able to let the cat out of the bag. One of the challenges we've been hearing about from customers is around patterns. We hear they are way too hard to grok, and to implement. What customers want is for us to help them with guidance on how to implement those patterns in the real world. In the past we've done this through several means starting with guidance, and moving toward code. Time

This year I'll be attending in Barcelona presenting on the work we've been doing in Web Client vNext. I'll also be doing a chalk talk session on factory usage in the real world along with David Platt and Mario Szpusta. WEB318 Web Client Software Factory (WCSF): Building Rich Internet Applications with ASP.NET AJAX and WCSF Come to this session to hear about the exciting work we’ve been doing on the client team for Web Client vNext that leverages ASP.NET AJAX to provide that next generation experience.

Within the client program, we create a lot of guidance in the form of blog posts, codeplex pages, etc that are around our deliverables. Often these posts have a BANG when they go out but are then lost into the abyss of other posts. These posts have huge value for customers that are working with our guidance, but provide little value if they don’t know they exist. Recently we decided to do something about this by creating a Knowledgebase for WCSF and SCSF . The KB contains categorized pointers to