Just came across a very interesting article on MSDN titled “The EFx Architectural-Guidance Software Factory”.
According to the introductory paragraph “ The Enterprise Framework Factory (the EFx Factory) is an architectural-guidance software factory. It provides Microsoft partners with a software-factory implementation of the Microsoft Distributed Architecture for .NET Applications for building applications and services on the .NET platform. The software factory is founded upon an application framework (Enterprise Framework) that combines Enterprise Library, a number of the Microsoft Application Blocks, and best practices in .NET solution development, and supplements those with specialized class libraries for creating service-oriented, enterprise-level applications.”
Its a nicely written article showcasing the power of EFx. Many of the ideas implemented there resonated with my thoughts on implementing something similar for my development team. Wonder if MS will make it available for download or if its a MCS only internal product. I tried contacting the author, Jezz, but the contact form on his blog doesnt work. I’ll keep trying. Its good to see MS aligning all their guidance and standards into automated tools. Makes it so much easier than having to point people to massive PDFs online.