Following a tip from Robban I’ve been checking out the Web Service Factory tool from Microsofts Patterns and Practices gang.
Robban and I were discussing the use of Contract First design in an upcoming project and I was interested to see if there were any good tools out there.
Well as it turns out there are good tools… but the one that seemed to be most complete was the Web Service Factory (horrendous name, by the way…). Also for us Microsoft-coders the PoP-gang is well-known and often delivers with great quality.
I have now been checking it out and it is good. Here is some of the stuff I’ve been checking out
- The home of Web Service Factory (and the Codeplex home)
- Introduction
- A video showing off some features
I am not yet convinced that we will go this way (the completeness is maybe too great fiddling with servers etc.) but it sure looks good.