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The Web Client Software Factory (WCSF) provides a set of guidance for architects and developers building enterprise Web applications. The factory includes samples, reusable code and a guidance package which automates key development tasks from within Visual Studio.

Using the Web Client Software Factory assets, developers can create Composite Web applications composed of independently developed and deployed modules. These modules are dynamically brought together at runtime into a common shell. Additionally the factory includes support for ASP.NET AJAX thus providing users with a richer and more responsive user experience.

Getting Started

The Getting Started provides recommendations on how to quickly use the guidance available in this factory.

Where to go next?

Action Link
Read about the 2.0 release of the factory WCSF MSDN Landing page
View our bundle catalog Guidance Bundle catalog
View recent announcements for the Web Client program Announcements
See a list of resources for getting started with WCSF Learning Resources
Explore our compilation of Web Client tips, tricks and guidance from the Web Client team and the community Knowledge Base
Read blog postings from the team Team Blogs
Read blog postings from the trenches Community Blogs
View Community work items that have been resolved with WCSF 2.0 Resolved items
View additional links and resources Other links
View known issues Known Issues

Participation

The factory is developed using the open process used by patterns & practices for all of its deliverables. This process includes frequent builds and releases in this community of code and documentation. If you find bugs or want additional capabilities addressed by the team, use the Issue Tracker to create a new Work Item.

You can influence this project. Please send us feedback!

Our team will continuously monitor the forums in this site to get feedback on content and to help us prioritize.

Thanks!
p&p Client Team
Last edited Mon at 7:21 PM  by jonathan, version 160
Comments
matrixgoh wrote  Mar 3 at 6:04 AM  
Why WCSF 2.0 can't work with Visual Studio 2005?

t_shah wrote  Mar 11 at 3:12 PM  
WCSF 2.0 doesn't work with VS 2005. It also doesn't have PageFlow Application Black. How do we create app which can use PageFlow application black like Jun 2007 version.

gblock wrote  Mar 19 at 5:04 AM  
@matrixgoh In order to run on Visual Studio 2005, you need to download our bundles from the Guidance Bundle catalog link above. The bundle version is virtually the same other than some perf enhancements we made in the 2008 version.

mconverti wrote  Wed at 2:33 PM  
Hi t_shah,

You may find useful the Page Flow Guidance Package published in WCSFContrib (for Visual Studio 2008 and GAX 1.4).
Download it from here: http://www.codeplex.com/wcsfcontrib/SourceControl/DownloadSourceCode.aspx?changeSetId=17811

Mariano Converti
http://staff.southworks.net/blogs/mconverti

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