SharePoint Guidance

SharePoint Guidance


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.