It doesn’t matter if you are new to SharePoint development or a guru, you should check out the SharePoint Patterns & Practices Guidance that is available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff770300.aspx. Why should you check it out? Well, because when developing your awesomely SharePoint project, it’s always good to know how others solved all those common issues like logging exceptions, storing configurations, create data layers, etc so you don’t have to worry about that and just implement the business logic that your project needs. The guidance documentation is divided into four core sections. Application Foundations for SharePoint 2010. This section describes approaches you can use to address the challenges of testability, flexibility, configuration, logging and exception handling, and maintainability; it also explains how to use the SharePoint Guidance Library components in these areas. Execution Models in SharePoint 2010. This section provides deep technical insights into the mechanics of the full-trust execution environment, the sandbox execution environment, and various hybrid approaches to executing code in SharePoint applications. Data Models in SharePoint 2010. This section explains new list and external data functionality, key design decision points that can help you to choose between standard SharePoint lists and external lists, and techniques and patterns to address large lists and list aggregation. Client Application Models in SharePoint 2010. This section provides guidance on how best to use the new client-side functionality to access data and build richer client experiences with Silverlight and Ajax. Each section also contains a set of how-to topics. These explain how to perform specific tasks that the team found challenging to discover. And you are probably wondering who were involved in writing these patterns and practices, well it features almost every big name that is our there in SharePoint world so you can bet that the quality is more than awesome! :)


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