Jelle Druyts

If you've been looking at my Guidance Automation Series posts lately but didn't really "feel" it yet, I have good news for you: on Wednesday August 9th I'll be giving a session at the Belgium Visual Studio User Group (Visug) on the Guidance Automation Toolkit. This should give you a good overview of the technology and hopefully show you why I'm so excited about its possibilities when undertaking large developments projects.

You can register for this free session simply by adding a comment to the Visug announcement post. Here's the official announcement:

The Guidance Automation Toolkit provides a means for a solution architect or lead developer to deploy consumable guidance to developers.

If you've ever published a 40-page document full of guidelines, do's and don'ts on how to structure solutions and projects in your company and what the namespaces and class names should be, if the developers need to be able to start new projects quickly, if you have a need for code generation, or all of the above - this toolkit is for you. Microsoft is itself using this technology to publish their Software Factories, like the Web Service Software Factory, so that says something about the quality and future of this fine piece of software.

In this presentation, Jelle will show you how this works and how to build your own automated guidance so you too can benefit from its huge number of features.

Hope to see you there!