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:

Visit http://www.microsoft.com/spg for more information on the guidanace.

Announcing the release of patterns and practices Developing SharePoint Applications guidance