Microsoft SharePoint 2010 introduces many powerful new capabilities for organizations and developers. However, new capabilities mean new design challenges, new architecture considerations, and new choices and trade-offs for developers. Should you build your application as a farm solution, or should you target the new sandbox environment? Should you create a full-trust proxy assembly to extend the capabilities of your sandboxed solutions? Should you build your data store using SharePoint lists or an external database? What are the capabilities and performance implications of the new LINQ to SharePoint provider? How can you maximize the efficiency of the new client-side APIs when you retrieve SharePoint data from Microsoft Silverlight® or JavaScript? Designing Solutions for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 can help you answer many of these questions. It draws together much of the core material produced by the Microsoft patterns & practices team for the Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010 online guidance, a release that includes documentation, reference implementations, and reusable code utilities.
The book tackles four core areas of architecture and development for SharePoint applications: execution models, data models, client application models, and application foundations.
In each area, the book focuses on providing you with the information you need in order to make the right architecture and development decisions. It provides detailed technical insights to help you gain a deeper understanding of how the platform works, offers side-by-side comparisons of different approaches to common SharePoint development tasks and architecture decisions, and presents design patterns that improve the flexibility and robustness of your code. In short, Designing Solutions for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 can help you take your SharePoint design and development skills to the next level.
Jason Lee works as a writer, developer, and consultant at Content Master. Jason has designed and authored a wide range of training materials and technical guidance for Microsoft and for the past few years has specialized on the SharePoint platform.
Chris Keyser is a Principal Program Manager with Microsoft's patterns & practices group. In seven years at Microsoft Chris has performed a variety of roles, including Group Program Manager in Office for Duet and the lead architect for the Global ISV team in DPE. Prior to joining Microsoft Chris worked as a developer and manager at a series of startups on Web, server, and embedded system development.
Robert Bogue, MS MVP, MCSE, MCSA:Security, etc., has contributed to more than 100 book projects and numerous other publishing projects. Robert speaks internationally on technical topics. You can read Robert's blog at http://www.thorprojects.com/blog or send him an email at Rob.Bogue@thorprojects.com.
Todd Baginski, Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP and instructor for the BCS portion of the SharePoint Master Certification program, speaks frequently at conferences about SharePoint, Silverlight®, and other technical topics. Todd works closely with Microsoft to create training kits and content to help architects and developers create solutions with SharePoint and Silverlight. Todd also creates sites, products, and custom applications based on the SharePoint platform. You can read Todd’s blog at http://www.toddbaginski.com/blog or send him an email at todd@toddbaginski.com.
