This project provides a new reference implementation for the Composite WPF libraries.

The Deployment Software Factory provides an array of resources that offer many benefits for architects and developers of service-oriented applications. The Deployment Software Factory contains best practice for continues integration, automatic test running, automatic documentation, automatic installation package construction and automatic remote deployment to multi-rig environment. This VS package reference on following frameworks and practice: •Guidance Automation Toolkit and Extensions •Solution Build Framework •Software Factories Toolkit •Windows Xml Installer •Domain Specific Language •System Definition Model

This wiki is for sharing approaches we use to create guidance modules.

Guidance Explorer is a tool to find and use relevant patterns & practices guidance. Guidance Explorer installs with a guidance library including performance and security topics for .NET and ASP.NET applications. The guidance library contains checklists and guidelines covering des

The Microsoft HealthVault Solutions Development Process Framework (MHSF) Guide provides practices for planning, designing, developing, and deploying successful HealthVault solutions – especially those that require enterprise-patient connectivity.

C#/.NET stand-alone library that features a CQRS engine (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) for Windows Azure, CQRS clients, cloud views and event sourcing. Lokad.CQRS also emphasizes DDD (Domain Driven Design). Tier 1 project used in production in three products at Lokad.

The Microsoft Health Common User Interface (CUI) provides Design Guidance and controls which allow a new generation of safer, more usable and compelling health applications to be quickly and easily created. It is aimed at user interface designers, application developers and patient safety experts who want to find out more about the benefits of a standardized approach to user interface design. Patient safety is a critical issue for healthcare organizations worldwide. Microsoft has been working with the National Health Service (NHS) in England to improve patient safety by creating a common look and feel for NHS systems through the NHS Common User Interface (CUI) Programme. This partnership initiative is in conjunction with the UK government agency called NHS Connecting for Health. Microsoft is now publishing the Design Guidance produced through this collaboration and providing the Healthcare community with access to the associated controls.

patterns & practices: Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications Guide.

The Prism Software Factory is a software factory for Visual Studio 2010 assisting developers in the process of building WPF & Silverlight applications based on p&p's Composite WPF & Silverlight Guidance (formerly Prism). It's developed in C# and is based on GAX&GAT for VS 2010.

The Web Service Software Factory (also known as the Service Factory) is an integrated collection of tools, patterns, source code and prescriptive guidance. It is designed to help you quickly and consistently construct WCF Web services that adhere to well known architecture.

Welcome to the Community workspace of patterns & practices Smart Client offerings.

This paper offers practical advice for building Service Orientated Applications, using service oriented programming (SO) as an approach, that shows that every component can be a service while still maintaining the technical requirements required.

We develop guidance to help devs and architects build applications on SharePoint.

The Acceptance Test Engineering Guide will provide guidance for technology stakeholders (developers, development leads, testers, test leads, architects, etc.) and business stakeholders (managers, customers, end users, etc) on the discipline of acceptance testing.

Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

The TFS Integration Platform enables developers to build tools that integrate other systems with TFS. Building one way and bidirectional tools for VC and WIT is much simpler with this platform, as most of the TFS interaction and migration/sync actions are provided for you.

Use the ALM Assessment to evaluate where your organization stands in case of ALM Best Practices by using the assessment questions and qualitative discussions.

Visual Studio ALM Rangers practical guidance for Visual Studio architecture tooling, which is focused on modeling tools.

Practical guidance for version control strategies on TFS, TFVC, Git and NuGet.

Visual Studio ALM Rangers build templates and guidance for build, release and deploy (BRD) build automation.