The MP Authoring toolkit consists of three parts.
- Management Pack Content
- MP Authoring Snippets
- MP Authoring Snippet Guides
These aim to ease the authoring of managament packs. Below is a short description of each part.
These documents describes a number of rules and recommendations when creating management packs. Following these rules makes the authoring much simpler and when paired with the snippets a lot of things just works.
Click to open the Management Pack Content documents
This is a Visual Studio Extension that contains a number of XML snippets to make it easier to author management packs. You don't need to remember all that XML code. Just insert the snippet and fill out a number of fields.
These documents gives a detailed description on how to use the snippet in the MP Authoring Snippets. They provide step-by-step instructions on how to create the different elements of a management pack.
To open the MP Authoring Snippets Guides, click the link.