Microsoft SharePoint 2010 introduces many powerful new capabilitiesfor organizations and developers. However, new capabilities mean newdesign challenges, new architecture considerations, and new choicesand trade-offs for developers. Should you build your application asa farm solution, or should you target the new sandbox environment?Should you create a full-trust proxy assembly to extend the capabilitiesof your sandboxed solutions? Should you build your data store usingSharePoint lists or an external database? What are the capabilities andperformance implications of the new LINQ to SharePoint provider? Howcan you maximize the efficiency of the new client-side APIs when youretrieve SharePoint data from Microsoft Silverlight® or JavaScript?Designing Solutions for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 can help you answermany of these questions. It draws together much of the core materialproduced by the Microsoft patterns & practices team for the DevelopingApplications for SharePoint 2010 online guidance, a release that includesdocumentation, reference implementations, and reusable code utilities. The book tackles four core areas of architecture and development forSharePoint applications: execution models, data models, client applicationmodels, and application foundations. In each area, the book focuses on providing you with the informationyou need in order to make the right architecture and development decisions.It provides detailed technical insights to help you gain a deeperunderstanding of how the platform works, offers side-by-side comparisonsof different approaches to common SharePoint development tasksand architecture decisions, and presents design patterns that improvethe flexibility and robustness of your code. In short, Designing Solutionsfor Microsoft SharePoint 2010 can help you take your SharePoint designand development skills to the next level.