Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Patterns & Practices

Eric Nelson (@ericnel) tweeted this morning about the patterns & practices Guidance Explorer tool.

Now I’d seen this before, but had missed the Visual Studio 2008 Guidance Explorer Add-In that brings guidance directly into VS.

I’d also missed that there’s a way to get the guidance in “bite-sized” chunks via an RSS feed for Outlook1.

Why is this relevant? Well, the p&p team’s guidance is a baseline for .net development – being at least aware of the best practice is certain to improve your own development. Time to do some configuration…

p&p Guidance Explorer: http://www.codeplex.com/guidanceExplorer

VS2008 Add-In: http://www.codeplex.com/GEVSAddIn

p&p Guidance RSS: http://blogs.msdn.com/alikl/archive/2008/01/03/consume-patterns-practices-guidance-explorer-via-rss-using-outlook-2007.aspx

 

1Disclaimer: Other RSS readers are available.

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