Microsoft patterns and practices

Microsoft patterns and practices provides .NET developers with guidance,

tools, libraries, and frameworks to help them build better applications.

Development teams adopting patterns and practices achieved greater

developer productivity and improved ongoing application management and

application performance.

Microsoft patterns and practices helps software architects, developers, and their

teams leverage the Microsoft platform to build better applications. Patterns and

practices guidance, tools, libraries, and frameworks help to simplify the platform,

provide guidance to common problems, and help development teams build looselycoupled

applications. Key components of patterns and practices include:

􀂃 The Enterprise Library is a collection of reusable software components that help

developers with common development needs such as logging, validation, data

access, and exception handling. They can be used “as is” or extended or

modified by developers as needed.

􀂃 SharePoint Guidance helps architects and developers design and build

SharePoint intranet applications.

􀂃 Composite Application Guidance for WPF (formerly code-named Prism) helps

developers build and evolve modular Windows Presentation Foundation and

Silverlight client applications. These applications typically include multiple

screens and role-determined behavior and are designed to change over time

based on business requirements.

􀂃 Web Service Software Factory are patterns, models, and written guidance

integrated with Visual Studio 2008 that are designed to help developers build

Web services.

􀂃 Microsoft ESB Guidance for BizTalk Server 2006 R2 is designed to help

developers leverage the Microsoft BizTalk Server platform to build an

enterprise service bus (ESB).

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