Guidance includes so many different types of documents; Help, How-Tos, FAQs, Checklists, Code Examples, Design Patterns, and Guidelines to name just a few that coming up with a standard way to develop the needed guidance is a hard task to do from scratch. Luckily Microsoft's patterns & practices group has a tool that can simplify a lot of this for you. The Microsoft patterns & practice's Guidance Explorer provides a one stop shop for discovering, developing and publishing high quality development...

I've been needing a tailored version of the Web Service Software Factory to simplify the design and creation of web services for my development team. Not that the Service Factory isn't easy to use, but my team has to design and build services that use industry standard schemas as well as invoke workflows. So, I figured extending the the service factory would allow me to tailor it to my team's needs and by using some of the new features in the v3b117 Alpha I could keep the modifications simple. Granted,...