Yes! Yes!
YESSSSSSSSSSS! It's downloadable!
The VPC Image
is downloadable for everyone, which contains the OBA Composition Reference
Toolkit presented by me several times in Hungary (Hungarian Architecture Forum,
Visual Studio 2008 Launch, etc.). The OBA Composer is downloadable for several
weeks, but needs a really complitated server environment. The newly accessible
virtual environment is a really big help for us – could you imagine that?
The
fully installed VPC can be downloaded from http://connect.microsoft.com. After log in, you can sign to
the "OBA Reference Architecture Packs" connect program. Here you can download the VPC image, and you can find some details
about it as well (for example user credentials).
The documentation of
OBA Composition Reference Toolkit, hands on lab, etc. are downloadable from related MSDN site.
And finally: we're
waiting for the next version of this toolkit to the second half of April. In
that release we will find a real client-server Composer application,
incremental provisioning feature, OBA Services in the SSP, and other powerful
and interesting things.