Developing a model centric software factory

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Time to look back on the last eight or so months of building and (finally) shipping Service Factory: Modeling Edition. I thought it might be interesting to think back to some of the things that caught us unawares when building a model centric factory using DSLs on top of GAT/GAX. Bob (Dev) ...

Service Factory model validation

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Now Service Factory: Modeling Edition has finally shipped I felt obligated to write some stuff about it. As Dev Lead I didn't actually get to write a lot of code but one place I did get my hands grubby was the validation framework. In the process of putting together our presentation ...

Adding a new validation rule to the Service Factory

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Even if you're not in the factory authoring game you might want to add additional validation to the Service Factory so that you can ensure that additional business rules are followed. For example all your services are using the correct namespace for your organization. We've made this sufficiently simple that anyone can add new ...

Service Factory: Modeling Edition VS2005 available

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

The release is on CodePlex for you to download. I'll be posting some more about the factory, largely based on stuff we'll be talking about today at the p&p Summit.

Service Factory and Software Factories

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

So now Service Factory: Modeling Edition has now shipped I have a bit more time to think, rather then just "do". There are a couple of new blog categories: Service Factory - Posts about the Service Factory: Modeling Edition and how we built it and the lessons we learnt along the way. Software ...