Guidance Automation Toolkit 2010 Reference
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Overview of the Guidance Automation Toolkit
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Understanding the Guidance Automation Toolkit
- Concepts of the Guidance Automation Toolkit
- The Recipe Framework
- Understanding Recipes
- Understanding Wizards
- Understanding Visual Studio Templates
- Understanding Template and Recipe Associations
- Understanding Launch Points
- Understanding Guidance Packages
- Understanding Recipe References
- Understanding the Meta-Guidance Package
- Components of the Guidance Automation Toolkit
- The Recipe Framework Foundation
- The Wizard Framework Extension
- The T4 Templating Engine
- Guidance Package Management UI
- Using Guidance Packages
- Installing a Guidance Package
- Enabling and Disabling a Guidance Package
- Uninstalling a Guidance Package
- Launching Templates
- Launching Bound and Unbound Recipes
- Using the Guidance Navigator
- Running Guidance Packages in the Experimental Hive
Considerations for Developing Guidance Packages
- Common Scenarios
- Adding a User Experience to a Reusable Component
- Adding a User Experience to an Application Framework
- Packaging an Application Architecture as a Reusable Guidance
- Providing a User Experience Around a Pattern
- Developing Recipes
- Specifying Command Bars
- Specifying Bound References
- Specifying Unbound References
- Gathering Arguments
- Writing Type Converters
- Writing Value Providers
- The AddMainClass Recipe
- Raising Exceptions for Recipes
- Using XInclude in the Guidance Package Configuration File
- Documenting Recipes to Show in the Guidance Navigator
- Developing Wizards
- Defining a Wizard
- Defining a User Interface Value Editor
- Writing a Custom Wizard Page
- Implementing Argument Value Propagation
- Raising Exceptions for Wizards
- Developing Actions
- Writing Action Classes
- Raising Exceptions for Actions
- Obtaining and Using Host Services
- Common Actions
- Action Coordination Extensibility