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Using Guidance Explorer from Outlook
It looks like Alik Levin has some helpful posts on using Guidance Explorer from Outlook: Customize Guidance Explorer Inside Outlook 2007 – Find Tech Gold Nuggets Instantly - how to configure Outlook for easier searches using built-in functionality. Consume Read More...
How To Use Guidance Explorer to do a Security Code Inspection
One of the key experiences you get with Guidance Explorer (GE) is support for manual security inspections. We call them inspections versus reviews because we inspect against specific criteria. We supply you with a starter set of inspection questions, Read More...
How To Build Your Own Guide with Guidance Explorer
You can build your own guide using Guidance Explorer . Guidance Explorer is a front-end browser optimized for our patterns & practices guidance store. Here's some of the usage scenarios: Build a guide of your favorite patterns & practices items. Read More...
Guidance Explorer: A Top Download on CodePlex
It was a nice surprise to see that our Guidance Explorer is among the top downloads on CodePlex . Read More...
New Video: How To - Personalize Team System Guidance with Guidance Explorer
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 Read More...
Building a Custom Set of Guidance with Guidance Explorer
Today I was reminded of the powerful scenario for building a custom set of guidance on the fly using Guidance Explorer . One of the scenarios for Guidance Explorer that's probably not well known, is the ability to generate MS Word documents. You can also Read More...
Guidance 2.0
Imagine what a Guidance 2.0 world might be like ... browse tag clouds of reusable "architecture nuggets" subscribe to "guidance feeds" that give you the latest practices and recommendations share your "guidance" playlists with friends (share your favorite Read More...
24 ASP.NET 2.0 Security FAQs Added to Guidance Explorer
We published 24 ASP.NET 2.0 Security FAQs now in Guidance Explorer . You'll find them under the patterns & practices library node. We pushed the FAQs into Guidance Explorer because one of our consultants in the field, Alik , is busy building out a Read More...
Guidance Explorer as Your Personal Guidance Store
Although Guidance Explorer (GE for short) was designed to showcase patterns & practices guidance, you can use it to create your own personal knowledge base. It's a simple authoring environment, much like an offline blog. The usage scenario is you Read More...
844 Guidance Items in Guidance Explorer
It's not 9 new guidelines, it's actually 70. It looks like my Guidance Explorer wasn't done synching when I wrote my previous post. Prashant sent me a quick note. Here is the complete status for Dec and Jan Dec – 33 Guidelines items (.NET 2.0) Jan – 37 Read More...
9 New Perf Guidelines in Guidance Explorer
You should see 9 new performance guidelines in Guidance Explorer (GE) . Well, not entirely new, but refactored and cleaned up. Prashant Bansode (from our original Improving .NET Performance guide team) was busy while I was out of office for the holidays. Read More...
From Guides to Guidance Modules
Have you noticed the transition from guides to guidance modules over time? My first few guidance projects were actually guides: Improving .NET Application Performance Improving Web Application Security Building Secure ASP.NET Applications While the chapters Read More...
238 New Items in Guidance Explorer
Today we published 238 new guidance items in Guidance Explorer . If you use the offline client, it should automatically synchronize to our online store. We're in the process of performing a guidance sweep. The approach to the sweep is twofold: 1. Make Read More...
Guidance Explorer Beta 2 Release
We released Guidance Explorer Beta 2 on CodePlex. Guidance Explorer is a patterns & practices R&D project to improve finding, sharing and creating prescriptive guidance. Guidance Explorer features modular, actionable guidance in the form of checklists, Read More...
Test Our patterns and practices Guidance Explorer
I've been relatively quiet these past few weeks, getting ready to release our patterns & practices Guidance Explorer . Guidance Explorer is a new, experimental tool from the patterns & practices team that radically changes the way you consume Read More...

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