For those of you who have been wondering what is happening with Software Factories lately, have a look (and subscribe) at the new team blog for Software Factories. In this post, Jack Greenfield outlines the plans the team has to move the Software Factory Initiative forward. Also Jezz announced to be back and promised to post a bit more (I really should do the same...).

So, great news for everybody interested in adopting Software Factories! (in the 'near' future)

I just received an email of somebody who got stuck trying to follow the steps I described in this previous post. In this post I explained how to write a "VSServiceManager" (ExampleLanguageDesignerServiceManager) and register it in the Software Factory Schema file. However, when trying this example in the Rosario April CTP you will notice that the "Software Factory Runtime" dlls are no longer there (no further comments on that...). The good news is that Backplane is still available and we can also register our VSServiceManager with Backplane by adding the following snippet to the "Backplane.config" file (PrivateAssemblies folder).

I got a few other backplane related questions so I decided to clean up some of my experimental code and make that available for download (together with a few posts to provide some more details). Expect something in the coming days?!