Guidance Automation Toolkit
This toolkit helps us to create guidance for developer to follow in creating software, rather than creating written guidance we can create the guidance
DIRECTLY AVAILABLE IN visual studio 2005. This guidance can include pattern, snippet, best practices, solution template, project template, rule, add-in, etc... We can package it into an installation (.msi) and then install it into the developers machine, and after that there will be a new project/solution template in visual studio 2005 to create the project. As we can see that Guidance Automation Toolkit or GAT will be useful for architect to create rule for their developers. Some people call the package that are created using GAT by the name Software Factory. You can download the bit from here
http://www.guidanceautomation.net/ , in this website there are also some action, recipes, reference, template and other things that we can download and use it in our package. All of this are free and open source. So maybe later on, rather than making only whitepaper for pattern & practices, there will be a Software Factory that has implemented those best practices that we can extend or use.