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New and notable ‘factories’ and guidance from MS
By TheServerSide.NET staff
Last week’s Patterns & Practices conference in Redmond provided an opportunity to review recent Microsoft activity in the areas of guidance, processes and patterns. The group, which takes as its mandate to guide .NET developers in designing, developing and deploying applications, released Guidance Explorer, which is intended to improve the lot of developers navigating the depths of MS guidance.
Meanwhile, Software Factories have been fashioned for Web client and Web services builders. The Patterns & Practices group continues to try and propagate these methods, while at the same time guiding the community toward agile practices.
Guidance Explorer
The Patterns & Practices Guidance Explorer is a browser-based tool from Microsoft that lets developers navigate the Patterns & Practices guidance library. They can create filters, add their own files and commentaries, and variously enhance the library. That library includes “checklists and guidelines covering design, implementation and deployment topics.”
Webclient software factory
The Web Client Software Factory reference implementation recently had its fourth drop. Included is support for pageflow, using Windows Workflow Foundation as the underlying runtime. The engine uses a provider model. The software is available on Codeplex. Microsoft also offers a Smart Client factory.
WebService Software factory
The Web Service Software Factory -- also known as the Service Factory -- is a collection of tools, patterns, source code and guidance for creating architecturally solid Web services. It is aimed at architects and developers to meet such challenges as designing messages and service interfaces; applying exception shielding and handling; and, translating messages to and from business entities.
Agile is as agile does
The Patterns & Practices group at MS seems keenly aware that ‘guidance’ can turn into ‘rules.’ So the group continues to make room for agile development discussions at it conferences. At heart, said MS’s Peter Provost, agile development is “about putting together teams of bright people and removing obstacles.” Provost noted, however, that this is not about software development for software development’s sake; it is about making software that “leads to the most value to the business.”
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