December 2007 Entries
well looks like Amazon were not the only ones to deliver a belated Christmas present, Don's elves have uploaded the runtime binaries for a version of the Service Factory that runs on Orcas/Visual Studio 2008.... you can go get it and read more about it here, hopefully I'll get a chance to put it through its paces over the next day or so.... yup you read that right I'm back at work already...
GAT works in Rosario CTP10.... everybody stand-down :)
So what is new in the Software Factory world for Rosario? Well actually not much (someone is bound to shoot me down for that comment) :) So firstly Rosario is not just about factories, although that is pretty much all I will comment on, so once you have your VHD up and running there are a bunch of walk-through's /mini stories to give you a sense of what you are able to do in this CTP. Developer Mini-Stories Architect Mini-Stories - for me this is my main focus Team Foundation Server Mini-Stories...
Blaine just posted the following "The patterns & practices client team just shipped the Model View Presenter (MVP) Bundle. This bundle helps you understand how to test your ASP.NET Web Forms UI. Additionally it shows how to separate the View from the UI logic and its associated model. This bundle also discusses when to use the Passive View and Supervising Controller to implement MVP. Similar to the other bundles, we provide code examples to demonstrate the MVP pattern. The Model-View-Presenter...