GAT/GAX July CTP, but no Software Factories
GAT/GAX July CTP, but no Software Factories
The patterns & practices team has released the July 2007 CTP of Guidance Automation Toolkit and Guidance Automation Extensions. It has only minor updates from the previous February CTP, but the big news about it is the support for Visual Studio 2008 (Beta 2).
Great news? not so much...
Visual Studio 2008 has broken some of the DTE interfaces, and therefore it is not fully backward compatible. This means that none of the existing Software Factories can work on Visual Studio 2008.
According to p&p, there are currently no plans to apply these changes and redeploy the factories, but after Visual Studio 2008 is released, they will re-evaluate the amount and priority of this work and decide what's next.
Enjoy!