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 ...

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 ...

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 ...