--- title: "Come to my .NET Architects talk this month: Guidance Automation Tookit and LINQ preview" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/10/8/come-to-my-net-architects-talk-this-month-guidance-automatio.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/10/8/come-to-my-net-architects-talk-this-month-guidance-automatio.html" published: "2005-10-08T09:48:00" updated: "2005-10-08T09:48:00" tags: ["Architecture"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "I'll be doing the next talk at the Israeli .NET Architects user group this month, at the 27/10. Here's a summary of the talk. Should be interesting! (see the link for location details) This month, we will focus on 2…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Come to my .NET Architects talk this month: Guidance Automation Tookit and LINQ preview By Roy Osherove October 8, 2005 In [Architecture](https://osherove.com/blog/category/architecture) **Historical article** · Originally published October 8, 2005; technical details may be outdated. I'll be doing the next talk at [the Israeli .NET Architects user group](http://www.microsoft.com/israel/events/default.aspx?pageType=1&idType=1&id=28) this month, at the 27/10. Here's a summary of the talk. Should be interesting! (see the link for location details) This month, we will focus on 2 very interesting toolkits and technologies. **Part I: Establishing a development architecture using the Microsoft Guidance Automation Toolkit** For more information about this topic, browse to: [http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/teamsystem/workshop/gat](http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/teamsystem/workshop/gat "http") Using the patterns & practices of the Guidance Automation Toolkit, you can make reusable code and pattern assets directly available in Visual Studio 2005. The toolkit is designed to simplify integrating reusable code into applications allowing architects to automate development activities that developers would usually have to perform manually; often by following a series of instructions. By using the toolkit, architects can also ensure that repetitive and often error-prone activities are performed in a consistent manner, streamlining and accelerating the development process. The toolkit can be used with assets developed in-house or by third parties; such as the assets created by the Microsoft patterns & practices team. These assets can be exposed to developers within Visual Studio, and in some cases, configured by using configuration files, templates, and wizards. Expect demos and code examples. **Part II: A preview of the LINQ project: An extensible Language Integrated Query infrastructure in .NET 3.0** For more information about this topic, browse to: [http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/future/linq/](http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/future/linq/ "http") The LINQ Project is a codename for a set of extensions to the .NET Framework that encompass language-integrated query, set, and transform operations. It extends C# and Visual Basic with native language syntax for queries and provides class libraries to take advantage of these capabilities. Find out about the general-purpose query facilities added to the .NET Framework that apply to all sources of information, including (but not limited to) relational or XML data. We'll hopefully have some very cool demos of this LINQ in action. Details summary: Date: **October 27th, 2005** (27/10/2005) (**NOT SUNDAY**) Time: **17:30 – 20:00** Location: **HP offices, 9 Daphna St, Kiryat Etgarim (northern industrial area), Ra’anana** Topic: **Guidance Automation Toolkit for Architects and the LINQ project** Agenda: 17:30 – 17:45 – Assembly 17:45 – 18:45 – GAT – Roy Osherove - TeamAgile 18:45 – 19:00 – Break 19:00 – 20:00 – LINQ – Roy Osherove - TeamAgile ## More in Architecture [All posts in Architecture](https://osherove.com/blog/category/architecture) - Oct 16, 2005 ### [When LINQ and Yukon meet](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/10/16/when-linq-and-yukon-meet.html) - Oct 9, 2005 ### [Good architecture content from Udi Dahan](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/10/9/good-architecture-content-from-udi-dahan.html) - Aug 9, 2005 ### [Small Domain Specific Language for the GoF Design patterns](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/8/9/small-domain-specific-language-for-the-gof-design-patterns.html) - Jul 14, 2005 ### [\[Audio Interview\] Steve Cook -Software Factories and Domain Specific Languages](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/7/14/audio-interview-steve-cook-software-factories-and-domain-spe.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). 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