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Guidance Explorer

Overview

patterns & practices Guidance Explorer is a tool that enables discovery, composition and consumption of high quality development guidance. The Guidance Library is a catalog of guidelines and checklists that encapsulate development knowledge in several technologies such as .NET and ASP.NET. The Guidance Explorer tool provides a convenient means to view and edit the catalog. For more in-depth, information, see About Guidance Explorer

Usage Scenarios

* You can construct relevant sets of guidelines and checklists that result in improved security and performance for your team
* You can reference a discrete set of guidelines and checklists that match to the tasks you are performing on a daily basis
* You can add new guidance to the library to share with your team, your company or the community as a whole

See the Guidance Explorer Feature List

Download

* Guidance Explorer Download Page
* Guidance Library Download Page

News

* New user interface in progress. See Guidance Explorer New User Interface

Release Rhythm

* Guidance Explorer: Updates every other week
* Guidance Library: Weekly updates

Video Tutorials

* Video Tutorials These are 1 - 2 minute videos that show you how to use Guidance Explorer.

Feature List

* Feature List

Schedule

* Guidance Explorer Schedule
* Guidance Library Schedule

Versions

* Guidance Explorer Versions
* Guidance Library Versions

Status

* Guidance Library Daily Status

FAQ

* FAQ

Known Issues

* Known Issues

What's Next

* What's Next

Feedback

* Tells us your feedback by emailing GETOOL at Microsoft.com.
* See the results of our customer satisfaction survey
* Share Feedback in Our Wiki Page

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Team Pages

* Assumptions and Tests
* Checklists
* Customer Views
* "Design":Design
* Guidance Feeds Tracking
* Guidance Map
* Guidance Map Tracking
* "Issues":Issues
* Lessons Learned
* "Queue":Queue
* Release Process
* Scenarios
* Sound Bites
* Stories
* Spec
* Test Cases
* "Thoughts":Thoughts
* "Tracking":Tracking
* "Types":Types
* Use Cases
* User Interface Design
* "Value":Value
* "Views":Views
* "Vision":Vision
* VS Integration
* Web Client Factory
* Work Breakdown Structure
* "Workflows":Workflows
* Work Items

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