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Last year, I blogged a few times about a CodePlex project J.D. Meier was working on called Guidance Explorer (see my posts tagged with Guidance+Explorer). I thought Guidance Explorer had faded into patterns & practices history, but the reports of its demise were greatly exaggerated.

Take a look at this post from J.D. on using Guidance Explorer to mine and customize the growing body of Visual Studio Team System guidance underway in patterns & practices. As is becoming the fashion, he has a short video that shows you how.

If you are a hunter and gatherer of guidance, you'll want Guidance Explorer.  Watch Video: How To - Personalize Team System Guidance with Guidance Explorer to see how you can use Guidance Explorer to build a custom collection of guidance from our Visual Studio Team System Guidance project.  If you haven't used Guidance Explorer before, or it's been a while, you're in for a surprise.  Seriously.

Source: J.D. Meier's Blog : New Video: How To - Personalize Team System Guidance with Guidance Explorer

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J.D. Meier of patterns & practices fame blogged about New Prescriptive Guidance for Visual Studio Team System.

While Visual Studio Team System provides powerful new tools, customers are asking "where's the guidance?" ... "where do I start?" ... "how do I make the most of the tools?"  In response, our team is building a definitive Body of Guidance (BOG) for Team System. This includes How Tos, Guidelines, Practices, Q&A, video-based guidance, and more.

J.D. and his teammates have been working with Jeff Beehler and the Visual Studio Team System Rangers to plumb the depths of Team System, and capture guidance in true patterns & practices form. As you would expect, they're spending considerable time on Team Foundation Server, but they plan to cover the breadth of Team System. If you haven't seen the project, it's under development on CodePlex (Visual Studio Team System Guidance Project).

Source: J.D. Meier's Blog : New Prescriptive Guidance for Visual Studio Team System

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