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Roadmap for WCSF

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A number of customers have asked about the future of the Web Client Software Factory. I want to announce that we are starting to plan for the next release of the Web Client Software Factory. We plan to start the project in the spring of 2009 and plan to deliver this next version with Visual Studio 2010. I need your feedback as to the scope for this next release. The overall process for this release is the following.

  1. Announce intent for release and ask for scope requests
  2. Obtain feedback from you and other customers to create candidate scope list
  3. Publish survey to prioritize candidate scope
  4. Build vision/scope from prioritized scope
  5. Start project & deliver the project (if only it were this easy 

We will take feedback from the following sources for the release:

Obtain feedback from my blog and Michael Puleio's blog

Obtain feedback from www.codeplex.com/websf

Obtain feedback from advisory board

Obtain feedback from direct customer discussions

We are considering a number of new features for Web Client Software Factory. This list is to get the discussion started but it will not be the final scope which is why we need your feedback. We will not have time to implement all of these features and I am confident that you will provide many other ideas that are not on the list.

List to start the discussion:

  • Unity for a container
  • Composite support for MVC
  • Support for Web pages through dynamic data
  • Eliminate the use of a base class similar to what we did for Prism
  • Allow library to be pluggable so you can use your own components including the container
  • Support for Silverlight controls on your Web pages
  • Allow Web Client Software Factory controls to be reused with SharePoint
  • How to distribute logic between layers of the architecture
  • Improve performance of CWAB

I need your feedback on what you think we should focus on. I also need your help to build a list of customers that are using the Web Client Software Factory. I constantly have customers that are asking who else is using it. Additionally it is helpful to have this list to put the business case together for how much budget we should spend on this next release. So please help me build my list of customers.

As for support, we will continue to provide support for WCSF through our Codeplex site.

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  • Anonymous
    December 02, 2008
    PingBack from http://blog.a-foton.ru/index.php/2008/12/03/roadmap-for-wcsf/
  • Anonymous
    December 02, 2008
    PingBack from http://blog.a-foton.ru/index.php/2008/12/03/roadmap-for-wcsf/
  • Anonymous
    December 03, 2008
    First new and notable with the new Graffiti blog. WCF/Cloud Services Aaron has his latest in his series of WCF screencasts , this time showing how to host WCF services within traditional Windows services Aaron also has a geekSpeak webcast on Cloud Services
  • Anonymous
    December 03, 2008
    Blaine & I have been getting a lot of emails, messages, comments, etc about WCSF.  There are
  • Anonymous
    December 05, 2008
    Have you been using the Web Client Software Factory ? Or have you tried it and not adopted it? Or have
  • Anonymous
    December 08, 2008
    Para los amigos que me han estado preguntando sobre el futuro del web client software factory (WCSF)
  • Anonymous
    December 19, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    December 30, 2008
    I would find it helpful for there to be an interim release delivered as soon as possible whose only feature would be to replace ObjectBuilder with Unity.Thanks!Adam
  • Anonymous
    January 15, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 26, 2009
    A number of customers have asked about our plans for the Web Client Software Factory and the Smart Client