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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 February 2008 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
Page Flow Package released in WCSFContrib Download WCSFContrib Trunk
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 February 2008 release 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 May 23 2008 at 6:25 PM by mconverti, version 162
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matrixgoh wrote  Mar 3 2008 at 6:04 AM 
Why WCSF 2.0 can't work with Visual Studio 2005?

t_shah wrote  Mar 11 2008 at 4:12 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 2008 at 6:04 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  May 7 2008 at 3:33 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

hammerip wrote  Jul 2 2008 at 4:24 PM 
Which part/parts of the Guidance bundle should be downloaded in order to use WCSF with VS2005?

mconverti wrote  Jul 3 2008 at 6:24 PM 
Hi

You can download the Composite Web Client Automation Bundle (includes the WCSF Guidance Package for Visual Studio 2005) from here:
http://www.codeplex.com/websf/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=7590

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

ChrisAniano wrote  Aug 28 2008 at 11:36 AM 
Hi,

What would be the steps if:
We have an existing Web Application (Production, working well [Framework 2.0 (spaghetti) and some classic ASP pages]) it just that we need to optimized it (coming Sept '08), and we are planning to use this WCSF. The way we want it is gradually (for example the login module first). How would I do this? Is there any documentation available?

br,
Chris Aniano

mconverti wrote  Oct 3 2008 at 6:14 PM 
Hi Chris,

Perhaps you could find useful the following article using the WCSF with existing web site projects:
• http://blogs.msdn.com/mpuleio/archive/2007/03/25/using-the-wcsf-with-existing-web-site-projects.aspx.

You had some suggestions about this in the following thread:
• http://www.codeplex.com/websf/Thread/View.aspx?ThreadId=34786.

Hope it helps.

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

Sandra wrote  Nov 1 2008 at 11:08 AM 
Hi,

I just want to know how much control developers have with outputting data in the WCSF. We use a product called X-Appl that use an output format similar to HTML but with different namespaces and different tags. We had difficulty outputting the X-Appl (WAML) code from standard ASP.NET pages.

We would prefer the more direct approach with an MVC type model for building web applications.

Sandra

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