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title: "Nice Guidance Automation kit hands on lab from TechEd (with a fix for a build problem it contains)"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/10/21/nice-guidance-automation-kit-hands-on-lab-from-teched-with-a.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/10/21/nice-guidance-automation-kit-hands-on-lab-from-teched-with-a.html"
published: "2005-10-21T23:39:00"
updated: "2005-10-21T23:39:00"
tags: [".Net 2.0", "Architecture", "TechEd 05"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "There's a nice guidance automation hands-on-lab available from teched, created by Daniel Cszzulino . Unfortunlately, if you tried to compile the source from the download on a VS 2005 Beta 2 or later without VSIP…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
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# Nice Guidance Automation kit hands on lab from TechEd (with a fix for a build problem it contains)

By Roy Osherove October 21, 2005 In [.Net 2.0](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-2-0), [Architecture](https://osherove.com/blog/category/architecture), [TechEd 05](https://osherove.com/blog/category/teched-05)

**Historical article** · Originally published October 21, 2005; technical details may be outdated.

There's a nice guidance automation hands-on-lab available from teched, created by [Daniel Cszzulino](http://weblogs.asp.net/cazzu/). Unfortunlately, if you tried to compile the source from the download on a VS 2005 Beta 2 or later without VSIP installed(which you don't really need), you're going to run into some problems. It's a good thing that Daniel posted a note about how to get over these hurdles and make the thing compile. It's actually a very cool sample of generating a data layer tier for an application using the GAT extensions.

- Learn [what GAT is](http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/teamsystem/workshop/gat/intro.aspx)
- Download [GAT and GAT extensions](http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/teamsystem/workshop/gat/download.aspx) (VS 2005 beta 2 needed)
- Download the [Guidance Hands on lab here](http://guidanceautomation.net/cs/library/View.aspx?tab=3&Id=7)
- Read [how to fix the broken references in the solution here](http://guidanceautomation.net/cs/forums/61/ShowPost.aspx#61)

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## About the author

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