Try this site
Infocard Explained , it's a nice video about infocard (a new identity management in vista, based on winfx). I think one of them in the video (the program manager of infocard) is indonesian, hmm, am i right ??? CMIIW..... And the nicest thing about infocard is that we can use this identity/credential for our WCF services, we just have to set some xml config for our WCF services and then when our program invoke that services , the infocard dialog will popup and ask us to choose the card that we want to use, cool right.... No more hassle in remembering all those kind of password and user for different services and websites.... We can integrate it all into a single sign-on using infocard and the UX (User Experience) is very good. Enjoy !!!
Here is a blogcast series for service factory,
Service Factory Blogcast Series , ENJOY !!!!
Continuing my prev post.... Now i want to share one software factory that are ready to download and use. This bits are made by the guys at p&p team, this factory helps us to create services based on WCF. Download the bits here
Service Factory , this thing's really cool, it has already implemented the best practices for creating Services.
This toolkit helps us to create guidance for developer to follow in creating software, rather than creating written guidance we can create the guidance
DIRECTLY AVAILABLE IN visual studio 2005. This guidance can include pattern, snippet, best practices, solution template, project template, rule, add-in, etc... We can package it into an installation (.msi) and then install it into the developers machine, and after that there will be a new project/solution template in visual studio 2005 to create the project. As we can see that Guidance Automation Toolkit or GAT will be useful for architect to create rule for their developers. Some people call the package that are created using GAT by the name Software Factory. You can download the bit from here
http://www.guidanceautomation.net/ , in this website there are also some action, recipes, reference, template and other things that we can download and use it in our package. All of this are free and open source. So maybe later on, rather than making only whitepaper for pattern & practices, there will be a Software Factory that has implemented those best practices that we can extend or use.