I'm floored! What can I say ? As I mentioned in my previous post, I had sent a mail to Harry Pierson about the possibility of some MSF and MOF docs to accompany ShadowFax and I got a reply within minutes!! Here's what Harry says,
Not sure about P&P's plans around MOF and MSF, but I know that we are doing a bunch of MSF work as part of our newly announced Visual Studio Team System. You can read about VSTS's support for MSF here. Obviously, there's the issue that VSTS won't be released until next year, but does this help somewhat?
That certainly does help. I mean, I was looking for something a bit sooner, but knowing that VSTS will be rejuvenating MSF and MOF is quite interesting and encouraging.
I guess I'll plow through the ShadowFax documents and anything else that comes out relating to FABRIQ and try and stick it in some MSF docs myself. Hey,maybe that would be a good idea!. A community effort to build some sample docs for these projects. Wonder if anyone else was thinking about things like this.
I'm getting quite confused now. I read some comments on the GotDotNet site that seemed to indicate that the ShadowFax material was available for download, but I cant find it anywhere!! Does anyone know?
I just sent a mail to Harry Pierson about the possibility of the PAG group collaborating with the MSF and MOF teams to deliver some sample MSF/MOF documents around ShadowFax. This way we would get some great code, architectural documentation as well as project life cycle docs covering a SOA application. It would be a definite boost for all those struggling to bring their architectural documentation upto scratch.
I like the MSF templates, but there are a lot of sections and categories of information which sound fascinating, but I havent a clue on what exactly to put in there. It would be nice to see some distinct Conceptual, Logical and Physical architecture diagrams dealing with real life case studies. The only one I've managed to use properly is the DEVELOPMENT PLAN which gave me quite a lot to mull over and plan for in my previous project.