Just Released: patterns & practices Developing SharePoint Applications

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SharePoint provides a comprehensive platform for application development combined with extensible customer ready applications. However, using the full breadth of these capabilities takes experience and know how. patterns & practices Developing SharePoint Applications guidance helps customers accelerate constructing advanced applications through examples and documentation. The guidance compliments product documentation and helps architects and developers in the following areas:

• Use SharePoint capabilities to make more powerful applications
• Integrate information from Line of Business Systems
• Take advantage of publishing and content oriented capabilities
• Create collaborative interactions around business processes
• Design multi-site topologies with complex security and isolation needs, such as a partner extranet
• Build applications that are easier to scale, maintain, and grow
• Improve maintainability, testability, and layering through patterns
• Use techniques to improve flexibility, diagnostics, operations and performance
• Show how to use SharePoint’s feature and solution framework
• Improve application quality through testing
• Demonstrates unit testing and integration testing SharePoint applications
• Describe experiences with acceptance testing SharePoint applications including stress and scale testing
• Improve and accelerate team productivity
• Accelerate adoption of recommended practices with library components
• Show how to build an effective team development environment
• Understand fundamental design and implementation decisions

Links:

• http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=91f3c22c-8be7-4721-9449-84f699337d55&displaylang=en
• http://www.microsoft.com/spg
• http://www.codeplex.com/spg