My good friend Jelle Druyts will be hosting the next Visug session (Aug 9) on the Guidance Automation Toolkit.
"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."