I recently opened a SCSF project that was having build problems and I found that once the build problems had been corrected the GAT recipes were not working. An error was being reported when I tried to run the Add Module recipe: Microsoft.Practices.RecipeFramework.RecipeExecutionException: An exception occurred during the binding of reference or execution of recipe [...]

There is an issue with the 2008 version of the Smart Client Software Factory and Visual Studio 2008 SP1.  The guidance recipes don’t work correctly and won’t provide the “Add View” options etc. This is an SP1 issue only. There is a work around but it involves changing the Guidance Package Source code. For more [...]