Get site content for freeSharePoint Guidance on Patterns and Practices
Microsoft has officially released SharePoint Guidance on Patterns and Practices that aim to help and guide SharePoint Architects in their SharePoint implementation. As described by Microsoft:
Summary
This 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 architectural, development, and application lifecycle management challenges.
This guidance discusses the following:
- Architectural decisions about patterns, feature factoring, and packaging.
- Design tradeoffs for common decisions many developers encounter, such as when to use SharePoint lists or a database to store information.
- Implementation examples that are demonstrated in the Training Management application and in the QuickStarts.
- How to design for testability, create unit tests, and run continuous integration.
- How to set up different environments including the development, build, test, staging, and production environments.
- How to manage the application life cycle through development, test, deployment, and upgrading.
- Team-based intranet application development.
The following areas are not discussed in the current version of this guidance:
- Content-oriented sites that use Web content management
- Internet and enterprise-scale SharePoint applications
- Multilingual SharePoint applications
- Scale or security testing of SharePoint applications
This is an important asset from Microsoft and I would make every effort to read through it (download here). I would update you on my reviews on it.
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