If you have the July CTP of .NET 3.0 installed and have been wanting to use Service Factory to create WCF services, I am now happy to encourage you to do so :) This release only includes 2 guidance packages (GP): the main WCF GP and the WCF security GP. The Data Access GP that is part of the Service Factory July release will work with these guidance packages.

We have not included the reference implementation (RI) because we expect it will change considerably from the RI that is part of the July Service Factory release. We are also not including documentation in this drop. The plan we are shooting for (from not until we release in December) is to drop GPs and the RI once a month and to also drop the written guidance once a month but 2 weeks apart. As always, we are interested in your feedback on this approach.

We have also changed how we are exposing our known issues from now on. In an effort to be even more transparent into our project, I am making all of the known issues available to you. If you run into a issue, just open the ServiceFactoryKnownIssues-Aug.xls file and using the find feature (Ctrl-F) to find the issue you are experiencing. If you don't have Microsoft Excel installed, see the installation instructions for a download link to the Excel 2003 Viewer. Naturally, we are interested in your feedback about this also.