http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Microsoft patterns and practices has released a new version of guidance for developing SharePoint Applications. This release delivers a guide, a reusable library, and a reference implementation.  It 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 decision  Developing SharePoint Applications guidance integrates new guidance with the original release, SharePoint Guidance – November 2008, into a single download. Erwin van der Valk and Francis Cheung walks you through the various topics of this guidance in the following videos: Setting up the Contoso RI Walkthrough of the Contoso Reference Implementation How to use the configuration component? How to use the logging components? How to use the SharePoint Service Locator? Visit http://www.microsoft.com/spg for more information on the guidanace. en Tue, 21 May 2013 08:24:20 GMT Tue, 21 May 2013 08:24:20 GMT Rev9