Released Developing SharePoint Applications!
We've just released Developing SharePoint Applications! Thanks to all of our advisors and a dedicated team for helping put together a packed release. The release contains some reusable bits, a new Partner Portal reference implementation, and a bunch of written content. While the referennce implementation represents a pretty complicated application that demonstrates advanced principles, we worked hard to make the content accessible incrementally, and to make sure you can get something out of the guidance without having to understand the reference implementation in depth. We also packed in a few reusable tidbits like a simple logging framework, a service locator, some classes to help you with buidling list based repositories, a configuration manager, and a small but helpful nugget for registering AJAX scripts in your web part without worrying about conflicting with other parts.
Please send on your feedback! We are also collecting scenarios for our next release, so I'd love to hear about any new areas you'd like to have us explore that are challenging as a developer.