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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...

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...

When J.D. Meier showed me early releases of Guidance Explorer , one of the things I found interesting was his developer mindset to apply test cases to content development. Today, he wrote up a post about it ( J.D. Meier's Blog : Test-Driven Guidance ). If you're an author or a reviewer, this technique...

J.D. Meier posted some guidance on authoring prescriptive guidance modules for Guidance Explorer : How To Write Prescriptive Guidance Modules He also has a post that provides some general guidance on writing prescriptive guidance: Writing Prescriptive Guidelines For those who don't...

Last week I paid a visit to J.D. Meier over in patterns & practices to take a look at Guidance Explorer , which is a relatively new project on GotDotNet. I've been relatively quiet these past few weeks, getting ready to release our patterns & practices Guidance Explorer. Guidance Explorer...