Patterns & practices Developing SharePoint Applications – August 2009

Microsoft patterns & practices have just released Developing SharePoint Applications–August 2009. The goal of patterns & practices Developing SharePoint Applications guidance is to help customers understand how to develop large scale, content-driven SharePoint applications that extend the value of existing line of business systems.

This guidance helps architects and developers design, build, and test intranet and enterprise-scale SharePoint applications. Two reference implementations demonstrate solutions to common issues, and a library provides reusable components that can help you with your own development projects.

The guidance compliments product documentation and 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 decisions

This is certainly worth a look and I urge any SharePoint portal application designer or developer to have a look.

Thanks goes to Chris Burrows for bringing this to my attention.

Tags: Design, Design Tips, Development, MOSS 2007, WSS 3.0