guidance

Enterprise Library team at p&p is busy working on the next version of Enterprise Library 5.0. You will find the feature backlog here and of course, you can vote on the features. In this video, yours truly is joined by Grigori Melnik, Program Manager for EntLib…

UPDATE: The bits on the Visual Studio Gallery have been updated to Feature Builder v1.0.1 (just minor updates)Welcome to the Feature Builder  Power Tool for Visual Studio 2010 - Release 1.0 for Visual Studio 2010 RTM.   Feature Builder is an official Power Tool from the Architecture…

This video takes a look at how the Contoso setup scripts automate the process of creating a test certificate, a SharePoint web application, site collections, SPWebs, and active associated features.Quick Links:Walkthrough of the Contoso Reference ImplementationHow to use the configuration…

As we mentioned in our earlier post, we release a drop from our SharePoint Guidance project every two weeks which is the duration of our iteration. We released Drop 8 to our CodePlex project site on April 24th. In this webcast, Erwin van der Valk and Francis Cheung guide you…

This video walks through the Contoso Partner Portal application that was developed as the reference implementation for this guidance project. We cover how to surface line of business data through the SharePoint BDC, integrate published content with LOB data, and various ways to access and…

As we mentioned in our earlier post, we release a drop from our SharePoint Guidance project every two weeks which is the duration of our iteration. We released Drop 7 to our CodePlex project site on 4/13th. In this webcast, Erwin van der Valk and Francis Cheung guide you through…

This video demonstrates how to use the SharePoint Guidance Library’s service locator implementation. The SharePoint service locator helps with decoupling service consumers, such as web parts, from service providers which may be in a separate assembly or even separate WSP.Quick Links:Setting up the…

patterns & practices SharePoint development guidance helps architects and developers design, build, test, deploy and upgrade SharePoint intranet applications. A reference implementation that is named the Contoso Training Management application demonstrates solutions to common…

This video demonstrates how to use the SharePoint Guidance Library’s configuration component. Configuration providers such as feature receivers use the IConfigManager interface to set values while configuration consumers such as web parts use the IHierarchicalConfig interface to retrieve…

This video demonstrates how to use the SharePoint Guidance Library’s logging components. The SharePointLogger can be used to log messages to IT Pro oriented sinks such as the Windows EventLog and to developer oriented sinks such as the SharePoint ULS.Quick Links:Setting up the Contoso RIWalkthrough…