Patterns and Practices Guidance Explorer
Some weeks ago, Microsoft have released the Patterns & Practices Guidance Explorer for .Net and Asp.Net applications. If you want to know what the proven practices for security and/or performance are for .Net applications, this is the tool to help you find them.
Guidance Library is a catalog of guidelines, checklists, patterns, anti-patterns, test cases, project patterns.
The Guidance Explorer installs with a guidance library including performance and security topics for .NET and ASP.NET applications. It contains checklists and guidelines covering design, implementation and deployment topics.
Usage Scenarios
- Improve the security and performance of your application with guidelines and checklists that match your application exactly.
- You can build custom sets of guidance and share with your team as recommended practice.
- You can add new guidance to the library to share with your team, your company or the larger development community.
A full set of features can be found here, on Channel 9. You can download the off-line version here.
Online version
Next to the offline version, which has been in development since may 2006, Microsoft have now released an online version of the Guidance Explorer.
It is still under development, but it promises to be more up-to-date than the offline version, which relies on you downloading the updates to the library on a regular interval. I feel, that if you have Internet access, this is the version to use. The offline version is great for situations where online access is either restricted, or not possible.
Work in progress
Microsoft is still working on the Guidance Explorer and on content for this tool. The current status for the library can be found here on Channel 9.