Guidance Explorer

Categories:	Code analysis - Standards verifiers Miscellaneous
Author:	Microsoft
Latest version:	20080124
Description:	Tool that enables discovery, composition and consumption of development guidance. Guidance Explorer installs with a connection to the Microsoft Patterns & Practices guidance library including performance and security topics for .NET, ASP.NET, and ADO.NET applications. The guidance library contains a variety of guidance types including checklists and guidelines covering design, implementation and deployment topics. Usage scenarios: - Find relevant patterns & practices guidance - Build customized checklists for your development scenarios - Build customized guidelines for your development scenarios - You can build custom sets of guidance and share with your team as recommended practice. Includes: - Guidance Explorer: smart client that allows browsing local or remote libraries from a Windows Forms client application. - Guidance Explorer Web Edition: allows a user to browse guidance from the online store. Unlike the smart client it is a read-only view on guidance. - Online Guidance Store: provides a mechanism for publishing to, and sharing from, a guidance library on the web. It is a web service interface backed by a SQL Server 2005 database. - Guidance Explorer Authoring Toolkit: stripped down version of Guidance Explorer that does not come with a guidance library and includes just the basic guidance types.
Added:	2007-01-12
Updated:	2008-02-17
Attributes:	[BuiltForDotNet] [BuilfForDotNet2] [FreeVersionAvailable] [SourceCodeProvided]