Quick Links

- MSDN site: SharePoint Guidance

- Future friendly url: http://microsoft.com/spg

- Download: SharePoint Guidance - November 2008

- Codeplex site: http://codeplex.com/spg

- Community Forum: http://www.codeplex.com/spg/Thread/List.aspx

Guidance at a Glance

This guidance helps architects and developers build SharePoint intranet applications. The guidance contains a reference implementation (RI) that demonstrates solutions to common architectural, development, and lifecycle management challenges. This guidance discusses the following:

- Architectural decisions about patterns, feature factoring, and packaging.

- Design tradeoffs for common decisions many developers encounter.

- Implementation examples demonstrated in the RI and in the QuickStarts.

- How to design for testability, create unit tests, and run continuous integration.

- Set up of development, build, test, staging, and production environments.

- Managing the application life cycle including upgrade.

- Team-based intranet application development.

The following areas are not discussed in this version of the guidance:

- Content-oriented sites that use Web content management.

- Internet and enterprise-scale SharePoint applications.

- Multilingual SharePoint applications.

- Scale or security testing of SharePoint applications.

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