Service Factory Contrib Project is live! Yesterday, Don Smith published the site that will (hopefully) soon host a lot of community extensions for Service Factory. Hernan de Lahitte already contributed the long waited for "Import from WSDL" feature and I donated a version of Service Factory that includes VB.NET code generation from your models.

I will upload some other extensions in the coming days but for now, if you have anything to share, please read all about p&p contrib projects, follow the sign up process and we will make sure you can publish your contribution soon.

Service Factory V2, is there!  This release provides some great guidance for building service for WCF and ASP.NET (ASMX). Get it here and make sure to post any feedback and/or questions on the Service Factory community site!

Great news! The July drop of Service Factory is available for download from the public workspace. This drop includes the ASMX package for Service Factory together with a totally new Data Access package. No need for me to go into any details because Tom already did a great job explaining the features of this July drop. One of the great features is the new "Navigator". This really improves the user experience of Service Factory!

Go download it, have fun and let us know what you think about it in the message board!

This Monday I will be travelling to Redmond to attend a Service Factory workshop that is organized by the Microsoft P&P team for a few of Microsoft’s customers.

I will be there as one of the members of the projects Advisory Board so I can hear the customer feedback firsthand and try to help them a during the implementation sessions. I am sure I can learn a lot from discussing their requirements, issues, ideas, etc. 

Hopefully the workshop schedule leaves some time to chat with Don, Jason, Tom, Pablo and a lot of others.

It's finally there! Download the first public drop of Service Factory and let us know what you think of it in the Service Factory community.

It started as project Batman, than it became Service BAT and now, the official name is just confirmed as Web Service Software Factory. A little long, so let's just call it Service Factory!