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Guidance Explorer Schedule

This is a strawman list that shows the features and guidance types that will be supported with each release.

Future

* Scoped Search
* Syntax highlighting on edit
* Favorites/Short-Cuts
* Community tags field?
* Community feedback

2006 August 16

* New type: Mini-How To
* New type: FAQ
* New type: Technotes
* New type: Design Pattern
* Point to a network library.

2006 August 9

* Keywords field added to meta-data
* New type: Principles
* New type: Techniques
* New type: Whiteboard Solutions
* Library organized by Types, Rules Library, Application Scenarios, and Engineering Practices

2006 August 2

* Revamped and simplified UI
* Run with least privilege
* Point to library store URL or file path

2006 July 05

* Robustness/Stability fixes
* Saving/Exporting Views
* Spell checking on edit

2006 June 21

* Simplified authoring
* New type: Patterns - Refactored Web Services security patterns integrated
* New type: AntiPatterns
* New type: Test Cases
* New type: Code Snippets

2006 June 7

* Search Views
* Related Items - links between items
* Run Guidance Explorer with library on remote share

2006 May 24

* Save checklist as a checkable word document
* Reset views
* User comments on items
* Item count displayed in tool
* Guidelines
* Checklists

2006 May 12

* Browse guidance items
* Sort columns
* Filter columns
* Create custom guidance views
* Add new guidance
* Edit existing guidance
* Share guidance as XML
* Save guidance as Word doc
* Save guidance as HTML
* Save guidance as Excel doc

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Future

* Guidance Feeds - guidance feeds/community is the works
* Community Ratings - With ratings and community comments on guidance
* User supplied content tagging
* Integrate with Team Foundation Server
* Composite View
* Improved search models

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