Those who know me will be familiar with my quest to avoid writing boring code using any tool that generates it for me (like CodeSmith + NetTiers or Software Factories). Thus it was with great excitement that I recently came across another one! It's called Microsoft Blueprints and is the next evolution of those Software Factories I love so much. (GAT/GAX, which are the heart of Software Factories, are going into Maintenance Mode. Blueprints is What's Next in this space from Microsoft.)

I found a particularly good blog post that describes how to get going with Blueprints so if all you do is read this you will have a pretty good idea of what I'm so excited about... :-)