[Cross-Posted from Lamont's Blog]  Version 2.0 of the OBA Composition Reference Toolkit was released to the web today, on schedule and with all the great new features promised for the release. Version 1.0 of the toolkit was released at the Office Developer’s Conference in February 2008. Watch the OBA Composition Reference Toolkit ...

Microsoft recently released the initial version of Software + Services Blueprints.  These blueprints are a series of source code and guidance packages designed to provide an architectural bridge between vision and implementation by making it easier to build S+S applications. The blueprints serve as a good starting point for designing an ...

We've officially launched a new website dedicated to providing invaluable information around building Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM) solutions using the Microsoft platform.  As a part of this site, we've released our latest roadmap and product strategy around the next generation of ...

Register today for our upcoming webcasts! DATE TIME LOCATION TITLE AND REGISTRATION LINK PRESENTERS TARGET AUDIENCE June 1, 2007 11:00 -12:30 EST Webcast Building Add-ins for Live Messenger Joel Reyes Developers June 6, 2007 14:00 -15:30 EST Webcast Introduction to Microsoft Silverlight ...

One of the things I've heard from people when I show them the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is that they would like some sort of ''Service Designer'' similar to the class designer inside of Visual Studio 2005, but that allows you to visually define your services.  Well, the next version of the Service Factory from patterns & ...

Man the p&p guys are just crankin out releases.  Announcement here. -Marc

By way of Don Smith.  Details: http://blogs.msdn.com/donsmith/archive/2007/01/09/come-and-get-yer-service-factory.aspx The two features that jumped out at me are support for the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and ''WSDL-first support.''  The direct download is here. -Marc

Just noticed by way of Eugenio Pace.  If you are uuilding ASP.NET apps, you'll definitely want to take a look at this Software Factory.  It's chock full of best practices for building enterprise class web apps.  This is the patterns & practices work I have spoken of during my Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) talks.  It ...

Last year, I talked about an early build of DSL tools for Visual Studio and put together a simple example for using them.  Recently, DSL Tools Version 1 was officially released as part of the VS 2005 SDK Version 3. Domain Specific Language (DSL) Tools Version 1 is a set of tools for creating graphical designers hosted in Visual Studio. ...

Edward Jezierski just announced it here. ''The Web Client Software Factory is a guidance offering currently under development that will provide comprehensive architecture guidance to help customers build web solutions using the Microsoft platform (ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Workflow Foundation, etc).'' This is the fourth Software Factory the ...