Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010 Released

Darrin Bishop — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:01:44 GMT

Many of you know that I have been involved in an advisory role with the Patterns & Practice team for SharePoint. Yesterday the P&P team wrapped up the 2010 guidance for developing apps using SharePoint 2010. If you are a SharePoint developer then at an absolute minimum, you MUST read the documentation that is included in the downloads. The P&P team has some of the best guidance on the various topics covered. Also included in the download is code that will provide some core infrastructure to your SharePoint 2010 projects such as logging and configuration.

Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010 is located at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff770300.aspx

SharePoint Lists vs. Database Tables - Interesting Quick Read

Darrin Bishop — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:06:35 GMT

In the latest release of SharePoint Patterns and Practices ( Developing SharePoint Applications) the P&P documentation includes a section comparing and the use of SharePoint lists to database tables. It is a short read and worth the time to read since this topic surfaces often in discussions.

While SharePoint lists provides a quick and easy way to store data it does has some limitations and should not be used where a true relational data store is required.

Using SharePoint Lists vs. Database Tables

SP Patterns & Pratices

Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010 Released

SharePoint Lists vs. Database Tables - Interesting Quick Read