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Practical Software Factories in .NET (Books for Professionals by Professionals)

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Too much theory. No sample code. I quickly got bored with this book. One of the main reason I bought this book was to learn about MS GAT/GAX which the book only mentioned. I was also interested in learning some good practices on building Software Factories of which the author explained the basis and need but no supporting sample code.

Ugh, can not get through it or understand how anything it discusses is applicable to any real world application.
It is not what I thought it would be. I thought it was a deeper dive in to the GO4 software fatory pattern.

This book is not a user manual for DSLs or the GAT/GAX technologies. While it shows the basic technologies with small samples it is by far not comprehensive, but the book points to further resources to explore the technologies.
The book is rather meant to describe the process on how to implement a Software Factory in an exisiting product environment. We successfully used this approach for our product development and published the results http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc496679.aspx .
If you want to implement a Software Factory in your environment, read this book.....

I was a bit dissapointed in this book, however I still highly recommend it to anyone interested (as I am with a book of my own on the way) in factories.

I was expecting far more in terms of real-world implementation, but I do understand all to well from experience that the pieces are not quite there yet. I suppose my dissapointment was in the name of the book. This is a far more theoretical 'what could be' book then 'here is how you do this now' book.

That being said, they do a good job of providing a nice single resource for defining many core concepts and adding (especially to a MSFT audience) many critical knowedge areas.

So bottom line, if you are even thinking about factories (and have already read the seminal work by Microsoft) then give this a read.

In my book I hope to be far more 'Practical' and able to show an 'A-Z' example from iterative Factory creation to iterative factory consumption and deployment.

Thanks,
Damon Wilder Carr, CEO
agilefactor