Wer ebenfalls wie wir gerade SharePoint Applikationen entwickelt, dem kommt das neu herausgebrachte SharePoint Applicaton Development Guidance von Microsoft Patterns & Practices genau zum richtigen Zeitpunkt zur Hilfe.

“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 deployment challenges.”

This guidance discusses the following:

• Architectural decisions about patterns, feature factoring, and packaging
• Design tradeoffs for decisions many developers encounter, such as whether 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 a SharePoint application 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

Direkter Download des SharePoint Guidances gibts hier.