Web Service Software Factory
The Web Service Software Factory Policy Extensions are new to the Contrib Project.
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Tom Hollander has a 3-part series on getting MSMQ, WCF, and IIS to play together nicely based on his work in the trenches. He also finishes the tutorials with a downloadable example.
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A number of WCF Debugger Visualizers when debugging WCF Applications.
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The Microsoft Patterns & Practices Team released the February 2008 Web Service Software Factory Modeling Edition for Visual Studio 2008 for download. The Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition (also known as the Service Factory) is an integrated collection of resources designed to help you 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 2008 and patterns and architecture topics in the form of written guidance. Read more...
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The Microsoft Patterns & Practices Team released a new February CTP of the Web Service Software Factory Modeling Edition for Visual Studio 2008 on CodePlex. The Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition (also known as the Service Factory) is an integrated collection of resources designed to help you 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 2008 and patterns and architecture topics in the form of written guidance. Read more...
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An article in the February 2008 MSDN Magazine provides information on how to integrate the Policy Injection Application Block with WCF Services.
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The current version of the Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition only works with Visual Studio 2005, but now there is a CTP Version that supports Visual Studio 2008 ( Visual Studio Professional Edition or Visual Studio Team Suite ).
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This WCF Security Guidance Package provides automation capabilities inside of Visual Studio to apply security (authentication, authorization, confidentiality, and integrity) to WCF Web services. While this package does not have a modeling environment itself, it can be used in conjunction with the Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition to secure services developed with the factory. This package can also be used without the Service Factory.
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The Web Service Software Factory Modeling Edition was released today for Visual Studio 2005. 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. The Service Factory also contains the relevant written guidance about building Web services from the December 2006 release. Some of these topics include architecture, message design, versioning, exception handling, and other useful patterns.
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The final CTP of the Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition was released on October 16, 2007 with the final release of the Service Factory scheduled to be released on October 31, 2007.
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The Data Access Guidance Package will be removed from the Web Service Software Factory in v3.0 and be a separate guidance package.
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This screencast demonstrates using the Data Access Guidance Package in the Web Service Software Factory to generate a data access layer for a Web Client Software Factory application.
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