A team led by Eugenio Pace at p&p has been busy working on the Claims based Identity and Access Control guide. We are thrilled to announce the availability of early drafts. Check out the CodePlex project site at http://claimsid.codeplex.com. In this video, Eugenio Pace gives an overview of this project and the scenarios that are covered in this guide. This guide will introduce you to “claims-based” identity, a set of ideas and tools that may make it easier for you to build features like…[more ]

Enterprise Library has been downloaded over 2 million times. We hit that mark last week and the team celebrated this milestone with a cake. (See picture). We are now working on version 5.0 of Enterprise Library. The main themes for v5.0 are: Enhanced user experience Simplicity Learnability and discoverability Watch Grigori Melnik and Chris Tavares talk about what's coming in v5.0 in this video. Check out the project site at http://www.codeplex.com/entlib to get more information on the scope of…[more ]

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…[more ]

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 Implementation How to use the configuration component? How to use the logging components? How to use the SharePoint Service Locator? p&p Developing SharePoint Application Guidance patterns & practices[more ]

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 aggregate SharePoint list data.[more ]

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 values. Quick Links: Setting up the Contoso RI Walkthrough of the Contoso Reference Implementation How to use the logging components? How to use the SharePoint Service Locator? p&p Developing SharePoint Application Guidance patterns & practices[more ]

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 Contoso RI Walkthrough of the Contoso Reference Implementation How to use the configuration component? How to use the logging components? p&p Developing SharePoint Application Guidance patterns & practices[more ]

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 RI Walkthrough of the Contoso Reference Implementation How to use the configuration component? How to use the SharePoint Service Locator? p&p Developing SharePoint Application Guidance patterns & practices[more ]

We have posted the complete session schedule and abstracts for the October p&p Summit, so this is a good time to remind everyone that the Early Bird Discount expires this coming Monday (August 31^st). Hurry up and get your registrations and save $s.…[more ]

Erwin from patterns & practices team just wrote an article for MSDN Magazine on "Building WPF and Silverlight applications using Prism". Check it out here.[more ]