We did it ! We’ve released the beta version of our Prism Software Factory Light for Visual Studio 2010 on Codeplex: http://psf.codeplex.com
We have also uploaded it directly in Extension Gallery accessible from VS 2010: Tools –> Extension Manager –> Online Gallery –> Search –> 4ward
Here details of the extension http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/72acef44-28b2-491a-8be3-6d041db712eb?SRC=VSIDE
Today I met Brian Keller in ALM Days in Microsoft Italy. He is “The” evangelist on VS and TFS. I swear that I never never seen a better presentation in my whole life ! It made me want to rush to buy VS and TFS 2010. Great speaker, he used DeepZoom that created a “wow wow awesome !!!!” effect and he also made some live demo.
After “The prestige” now with have “The presenter”.
The incredible thing is that at dinner we talk about Software Factories and I discovered that he has Michael Lehman in his team !!!!!! The same guy that created Blueprints that we (the only in Italy) used to plan a migration of our Software Factories. It’s unbelievable, like its presentation.
Microsoft Blueprints is the new foudation for Software Factories built in Visual Studio. It replaces the current GAX/GAT taking software autoamtion to the “Next Level”.
Yesterday CTP version 2.1.1 of Blueprints has been released with relative samples. It can be downloaded here.
Again yesterday new very useful screencasts from Michael have been added here.
I realized that he had never written even a line in a blog on the Software Factory on NHibernate that we created for our customers. Through GAT GAX and we managed to build a complete data layer almost totally automated that can generate HBM, a repository and business entities starting directly from a SQL 2005 database, with all the basic CRUD operations, all Get operations that returns collections use paging and there is also a standard Get that use a generic template.
The mind behind this great piece of software 
is my colleague Michele Zorzella, that when he’ll decide to open and write on his blog, I know that my little daughters will be married with children
We will evaluate a migration of this factory on the new Microsoft Blueprints technology and perhaps we will even add some new features offered by NHibernate 2.0.
