Guidance Package Solution

You have successfully created a solution for developing your guidance package. The solution contains a small, yet complete guidance package that we created for you as a starting point for your package. Most of the examples in the documentation are based on this "starting point" package. However, if you just want to see how it all works, do the following:

1. Build the guidance package development solution
2. Right-mouse click on the guidance package project and select the Register Guidance Package recipe from the context menu (this registers your guidance package)
3. Open another instance of Visual Studio
4. Select File>New>Project; this opens a New Project dialog
5. In the dialog expand Guidance Packages folder
6. In this folder you should see a subfolder with the name of your guidance package (the name you put in the wizard when unfolding guidance package development solution ). Click on that subfolder.
7. In the subfolder you should see a solution template with a familiar name; unfold it. You will be asked for a name of the project in the solution. Provide the name, click Finish and you are done. You have a solution with sample templates and recipes in it.

We suggest that you try the recipes and templates in the solution you just created while looking at the guidance package development solution to see how they have been implemented. The "Developing a Guidance Package" section of the documentation provides detailed explanation of those implementations.
For more information on guidance automation, please see the following resources:

- Guidance Automation Community
- Guidance Automation Forum
- Microsoft patterns & practices

have fun!