Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition

The Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition (also known as the Service Factory) is an integrated collection of resources designed to help our customers quickly and consistently build WCF and ASMX Web services that adhere to well-known architecture and design patterns. These resources consist of models with code generation in the form of tools integrated with Visual Studio and patterns and architecture topics in the form of written guidance.

The Service Factory contains automation and guidance integrated into Visual Studio 2005 for building services. The core of the automation components is a Web services domain model. This domain model contains elements such as service contracts, operations, messages, and data contracts. This domain model manifests itself in the form of three integrated domain-specific languages (DSLs) that are used to model services: Service Contract Model, Data Contract Model, and the Host Model.

• MSDN site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/servicefactory

This contains more highlevel information about the Service Factory: Modeling Edition.

• Community site: http://www.codeplex.com/servicefactory

The community site contains hands-on labs for both using and extending the Service Factory, discussion forums, known issues, and a more details on the roadmap. In the near future the site will include presentations, demonstration videos, and community contributions.