Using software factories does not mean you are lazy. Just sneaky.

A couple issues I've encountered using the latest drop of MSFT's Service Factory have seriously wracked my brain. If you're working through the HOLS or trying to actually use this thing (I'm still firmly in the "it's worth it (sometimes) camp," this might save you some time:

Situation:

• When saving a service contract model, you get the "path is not of legal form" exception.

Possible Resolution:

• There's some serious lack of client-side validation. Did you put a space in the name of your ssfproject file? I didn't, but I did rename it later.

Situation:

• When generating an ASMX implementation project or service you get this message "A namespace does not directly contain members such as fields or methods."

Possible Resolution:

• Dangit! I was hoping someone could tell me. I still don't know what's up with this one. *Sigh*