Updated : An even easier method to do this is to simply launch the debugger by adding a statement to the beginning of the method for Systems.Diagnostics.Debugger.Launch. Thanks to the suggestion I received on the topic - I misplaced the email, so the...

We posted a PDF version of the patterns and practices guidance release, Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010. This guidance will really help you understand the architecture and development decisions for SharePoint 2010 custom application development...

You can add a page to central administration and add an entry to the central administration menu to manage application settings for the farm or web application. As I reviewed in my previous post, Using the Applications Setting Manager with Web App Config...

We got a recent post to our discussion forums about managing settings for a web application from a web part. I thought this would be a good opportunity to go into some more detail about some of the special handling required for Farm and web application...