Welcome to the Guidance Automation Toolkit

You can use the Guidance Automation Toolkit to make reusable code and pattern assets directly available in Visual Studio 2005. The toolkit has been designed to simplify integrating reusable code into applications. This lets architects automate processes, and guide their developers through complex procedures that would otherwise need to be thoroughly documented.

The toolkit can be used with assets developed in-house or by third parties, such as the assets created by the Microsoft patterns & practices team. It provides a Recipe Framework that lets you expose assets to developers within Visual Studio. These assets can be added, and in some cases, configured by using configuration files, templates and wizards. For more information on using the Guidance Automation Toolkit, please see the product documentation.