patterns & practices Guidance Templates

Welcome to the patterns & practices Guidance Templates project site! The purpose of this project is to share templates and techniques for building prescriptive guidance, such as checklists, guidelines, and how tos. We've tried a lot of approaches over the years. Here we try to distill the essence of what works for writing guidance modules. Here you can see the templates, the schema and test cases we used for building guidance modules for several patterns & practices projects over the years. - J.D. Meier, Jason Taylor, Prashant Bansode
Usage Scenarios

• Use the templates for creating actionable guidance for your company
• Use the templates for creating actionable guidance for the community
• Use the templates to contribute to patterns & practices projects

Templates

Use templates when creating content. Template help make the content easier to create, use and reuse. When in doubt, use a Technote.

• Checklist Item Template
• Explained Template
• Guideline Item Template
• How To Template
• Technote Template

Templates in Action

• patterns & practices Security Guidance - browse the tree on the left by guidance module type.
• Improving Web Application Security
• Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability
• patterns & practices Guidance Explorer - Guidance Explorer uses the templates when you author new guidance.

Related Projects

• patterns & practices Guidance Explorer

Team

• J.D. Meier
• Jason Taylor
• Prashant Bansode

Related Sites

• patterns & practices Visual Studio Team System Guidance
• patterns & practices Guidance Explorer
• patterns & practices Performance Testing Guidance
• patterns & practices Visual Studio Team System Guidance
• patterns & practices Team Foundation Server Guide
• patterns & practices WCF Security Guidance