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Explore popular patterns & practices

To understand the categories of patterns & practices offerings, explore patterns & practices in the MSDN Library. Our finished offerings are all found in the MSDN Library under the patterns & practices node and grouped into four categories including Client Development, Server Development, Services Development, and Solution Development Fundamentals.
To familiarize yourself with some popular patterns & practices offerings, explore the following links:

• Enterprise Library (Core functionality for enterprise applications).
• SharePoint Guidance (Design and develop SharePoint intranet applications).
• Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight (Build sophisticated Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight client applications).
• Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition (Design and generate code for building Web services).

Discover the rest of the patterns & practices catalog

In addition to the organization of patterns & practices offerings in the MSDN Library, there are several other convenient filtered views of the catalog provided as RSS feeds. These feeds are intended to help you find just what you need and are exposed on the following set of pages:

• Application Type
• Quality
• Platform Version
• Guidance Type
• Upcoming Releases
• Complete Catalog (Listed by year of release)

NOTE: that the Home page of the patterns & practices MSDN Developer Center contains a vertical tab control that provides easy access to all of these pages and feeds.

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