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Note : this entry has moved . If you happen to be around Buenos Aires, don't miss today's TechNight that will be an extended version of the presentation Wojtek and myself did at the TechEd'05 . It's tonight (Aug-12, 7PM @ Microsoft Argentina). Here are the slides that I'll be showing (along with *lots...
Note: This entry has moved These are roughly the things that you need to change in your current package: Search replace "50505" with "51206" in the entire solution. This is the changed assembly version number that appears in all your .vstemplates. Delete all references from all projects to Microsoft...
Note : this entry has moved . For the past 6 months I've been the dev lead on a new framework coming from PAG, called the Guidance Automation Toolkit (or GAT). With it you'll be able to package so-called recipes that can greatly enhance your developers experience and productivity, by providing guidance...
Note : this entry has moved . What follows are some thoughts regarding the authoring of guidance that we have learned during practical experience. The following applies to both DSL and GAX toolkits. Developing guidance should be an iterative process, and we're still exploring it and how it fits in the...
Note : this entry has moved . The Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX) and Toolkit (GAT) have been updated for Visual Studio 2005 RTM. As Tom describes it : At long last, the Guidance Automation Toolkit (GAT) and Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX) have been updated for the final version of Visual Studio...
Note : this entry has moved . Probably you head about GAT , the Guidance Automation Toolkit. The reason p&p decided to create it was that packaging the guidance they ship (app. blocks, books, etc.) in a more interactive form, directly in VS was simply too costly. Creating and maintaining add-ins...
Software factories is an elusive concept nowadays. In this article, I will try to help you understand which technologies can be used today to build production-quality factories and the reasons for the perceived inconsistency in the tools and the vision on Microsoft's part. None of what follows is...
Note : this entry has moved . In the good old days of Everett (VS 2003), all project kinds, either web, win, class library, etc, shared the same command bar. You could put a command in all of them at once just by adding to that one. Nowadays, web projects (Venus) no longer use the C#/VB project systems...
Note : this entry has moved . Generating classes from XSDs, and being able to customize the process has been a favorite topic of mine for a while . Now there's a Guidance Package that Matias wrote for that very purpose, using the approach I proposed in my MSDN article . Read about the tool in his blog...
Note : this entry has moved . It's an honor to be there presenting a new framework from Microsoft patterns & practices (developed jointly with Clarius Consulting ) that I believe is a significant step forward in terms of packaging guidance and productivity boosters for Visual Studio (formerly done...
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