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May 12, 2005
Guidance Automation Toolkit (GAT) Released
Tom Hollander just announced that the new extension package for VS 2005 from the Patterns & Practices group is out. For details see the Guidance Automation Toolkit home page.
I've been looking forward to this release since I first heard about it from Tom's webcast in April. The current extensibility model for Visual Studio has just needed too much work for some of the enhancements that I'd like to make. For example, a recent project had separate assemblies for each device or instrument in the system. Each time a new device was added (and we probably had over fifty device assemblies) we started out with the same core structure for inheritance, configuration, communication, exception handling,... I could have used the GAT to make short work of adding new devices and improving the code quality in the process.
The leverage that a development team can get from this group is tremendous. If I get a chance to include this with the work that I'm doing in VS2005, I'll post my observations.
Posted by Mike Attili at May 12, 2005 12:40 AM