Heading to PDC

Well I'm off to PDC 2008 in LA today.  Hope to learn lots of new stuff.  I plan to update my blog (more regularly ).

Get Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1

Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 ships finally! Get the SDK and tools here and the Silverlight runtime install from the Silverlight site here

Web Service Software Factory

The latest Software Factory dealing with the creation of ASMX based service was just posted on the MSDN web site. Tom Hollander from the Patterns & Practices team has a great write up here.

Smart Client Software Factory - June 2006 Release

Finally the Smart Client Software Factory is released on MSDN. This version of the Smart Client Software Factory has a dependency on the Composite Application UI Block and Enterprise Library 2.0. As such the product must be preinstalled and the install package with ask for the location. The Software Factory is fully documented and comes with two (2) reference implementation. In addition the Software Factory Guidance Package Solution is included and can be modified to fit into your corporate standards. Before installing make sure you close any instance of Visual Studio you have running. You can read more about it here.

GAT/GAX June 2006

The June 2006 version of the Guidance Automation Toolkit (GAT) and the Guidance Automation Extension (GAX) has been posted on the MSDN site.