patterns & practices Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Knowledge Base project site.

Prism provides guidance to design and build rich, flexible, and easy-to-maintain Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight.

The Data Access Guidance project covers data access for SQL and NoSQL databases as well as some architectural and design decisions involved in using them.

Project focused on developing tools and guidance to help enable the development of highly manageable applications on the Windows platform.

Microsoft Enterprise Library is a collection of reusable software components (application blocks) addressing common cross-cutting concerns.

Enterprise Library Contrib is a community developed library of extensions to the patterns & practices Enterprise Library.

generate - BusinessEntities project - BusinessLogic project - DataAccess project - the layer presentation Windows form

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

patterns & practices Performance Testing Guidance project. The purpose of this project is to build some insightful and practical guidance around doing performance testing and using Visual Studio 2005. It's a collaborative effort between industry experts, Microsoft ACE, patterns

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

This package was originally released as part of the patterns & practices Web Service Software Factory as the Data Access Guidance Package. It allows easy creation of a data access layer that insulates your application code from your data access code.

Community contributed extensions and providers for Smart Client development

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.

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.

The purpose of this project is to build some insightful and practical guidance around using Visual Studio Team System 2005. It's a collaborative effort between patterns & practices, VSTS team members, and industry experts.

The Web Client Guidance from patterns & practices, assist developers and architects with the design, development and deployment of Rich Responsive Web applications using .NET.