SharePoint Guidance - November 2008

Developer's DescriptionBy MicrosoftDesign, build, test, deploy, and upgrade SharePoint intranet applications.SharePoint Guidance - November 2008 is a guidance which helps architects and developers build SharePoint intranet applications. A reference implementation (RI) demonstrates solutions to common architectural, development and life-cycle management challenges. This guidance discusses architectural decisions about patterns, feature factoring and packaging, design tradeoffs for common decisions many developers encounter, implementation examples demonstrated in the RI and in the QuickStarts, how to design for testability, create unit tests, and run continuous integration, set up of development, build, test, staging, and production environments, managing the application life cycle including upgrade, and team-based intranet application development.