Finally, part 1 of  our (short) series about "Packaging and Building Software Factories" is published on MSDN. The goal of these articles is to help you with packaging your software factories and implementing a team build with Team Foundation Server. As you will see this isn't always as straight forward as you might expect! These are the parts in this series:

• Part 1 - Packaging with Visual Studio 2005
• Part 2 - Automated Builds with Team Foundation Server 

I co-authored the series with Jezz and my colleague Rene. Thanks guys! Also, many thanks to our reviewers: Gareth, Pablo, Attilah, David and Mark Nichols !

We also included reference implementations for you to download and created a CodePlex project (for part 2 in this series) that we will use to publish some additional MSBUILD tasks and 'utilities'.

Stay tuned for part 2 and let us know what you think!

Ok, part 1 in our "Building Software Factories" series is finally on MSDN! . This part called "What are we building and why" describes what a factory is in concrete terms and explains what it takes to build one. As you can read in this post from Jezz part 2 and 3 will follow (soon?!).

Also expect another series about Packaging and Building Software Factories REAL soon.