Software factory (Microsoft .NET)

Implementations

The Enterprise Framework Factory (the EFx Factory) from Microsoft Services was one of the first pioneering architectural software factories to use a unique combination of model driven development, and integrated runtime environment tools to build Service-Oriented Enterprise Applications and Services.
- EFx Factory Blog
Microsoft Patterns and Practices Team have developed four software factories:
- SharePoint Software Factory, for SharePoint 2007/2010 and Visual Studio 2008/2010
- Smart Client Software Factory, for Visual Studio 2008 (released: April 2008)
- Web Service Software Factory (released: July 2006, updated December 2006, 2010, a new Service Factory : Modeling Edition version (incompatible with the previous ones) released in November 2007)
- Mobile Client Software Factory (released: July 2006)
Project Glidepath is a Micro ISV-oriented Software Factory, also from Microsoft.
- Project Glidepath Blog
- Project Glidepath Forums
NConstruct is Windows and Web rapid enterprise application development tool and environment for .NET Framework environment.

Jack Greenfield, Keith Short (Microsoft)|Keith Short, Steve Cook, Stuart Kent, John Crupi, Software Factories: Assembling Applications with Patterns, Models, Frameworks, and Tools, ISBN 0-471-20284-3
Jack Greenfield, Software Factories: Assembling Applications with Patterns, Models, Frameworks, and Tools (Microsoft, 2004)