SharePoint Developer

SharePoint 2013 Introduces a new “Getting Started” WebPart that has “Tiles” to provide an easy access to some of the main links in the Site like – adding listslibraries, Creating masterpage etc. To Programmatically Create this new WebPart a new abstract base class TilesViewWebPart has been added in SharePoint API. You have to Create a Custom Webpart and Inherit from TilesViewWebpart and Override GetTiles() to Create Custom tiles.

Apart from the new App Model for Creating Custom Components, Microsoft has added a few new Namespaces to work with newly added – Social, Event Receivers, Delegate Controls, Callout Popups and other Custom Components in SharePoint 2013. In addition to these classes a few new templates in Visual Studio 2012 has also been added to Create better solutions.

Video Content type added to SharePoint 2013 is a very useful addition for Content Authors.The Improved Asserts Library provides support for Video Content Types and provides various Out-of-Box views like “Thumbnails” and Out-of-Box pages like “Video Page” to View Videos in a very Interactive way.

Videos in SharePoint 2013 are Organized in a manner similar to “document sets”. SharePoint Creates a stub (think of it as a folder) to hold a video and all the related contents, such as user-defined properties, thumbnails, video renditions, and other documents related to the video. You can use the Video Content Type in Asserts Library properties.

Microsoft has added some Incredible features to SharePoint 2013 that can be of huge benefit to all the Companies that use SharePoint on a large scale. Most of the new Features are Introduced for Improving SharePoint Performance (for both Browser and SQL) and to enhance the famous Web Content Management Capabilities.

Different logical paths (URLs meaning) of gaining access to the same SharePoint Web application.

Five Zones :

☛ Internet Zone.

☛ Intranet.

☛ Default.

☛ Extranet.

☛ Custom

SharePoint 2013 introduces following features that improves performance significantly.

☛ Distributed Cache Service

☛ Minimal Download Strategy and

☛ Shredded Storage by introducing Shredded BLOBs.

You can create four different types of input forms including

☛ An association form

☛ An initiation form

☛ A modification form

☛ A task edit form.

In SharePoint 2013, three New Delegate Controls have been Introduced for the purpose of displaying the new Top Suite bar (with links SkyDrive, NewsFeed,Sync,follow). These Controls are –

☛ SuiteBarBrandingDelegate delegate Control

☛ SuiteLinksDelegate delegate Control

☛ PromotedActions Delegate Control

SharePoint 2013 Introduces Minimal Download Strategy and Distributed Cache Service to Improve Page Load; and Shredded Storage to Improve Storage required for saving files.

For End users and Contributors, some very Interactive features such as Drag and Drop of documents,Convert to PDF(Print to pdf),Quick edit (datasheet view),Document Library Search(Find a File),Get Embed code for documents and Out of box PDF Support etc. has been added in Web Content Management.

SharePoint Server 2013 has two ways that you can make published Content available to users: author-in-place and cross-site publishing.

Author-in-place – When users use a single site collection to author content and make it available to readers

Cross-site collection publishing –

Yes. A Custom Result type and Display template would be needed.

No. Dialog Framework still exists.

☛ Steps 1:build application place .dll into gac and reset iis

☛ steps 2:On the Debug menu, select Attach to Process

☛ steps 3:select the Show processes from all users check box.

☛ steps 4:select W3W.exe and OSWTIMER.exe can attach

☛ steps 5:refresh sharepoint site point break point

1. Farm is a collection of SharePoint servers having the same configuration database.

2. Configuration DB stores all the required information to run the farm.

3. Each farm is administered through a central administration

4. There is only one configuration database per farm.

New and exciting features are released with every version of SharePoint. SharePoint 2013 also bundled with lots of new features. Few of them are listed here:

☛ Improved Performance

☛ Cross-Site Publishing

☛ Design Manager for Publishing Sites

☛ Improved and better Search

☛ Changes in SharePoint Workflow Architecture

☛ Office Web Apps Server

☛ Improved Social Computing Features

☛ Optimized User Interface for Mobile Devices

☛ Shredded BLOBs for Storage

☛ New Features to BCS (Business Connectivity Services)

☛ and much more…

Minimal Download Strategy in SharePoint 2013 improves rendering performance when browsing content where large parts of the page do not change providing a more fluid navigation experience. For example when navigating between a site’s home page and Shared Documents page only the Content that has changed between the source and destination page (controls and placeholders in the content area) are downloaded and Url subsequently updated where the chrome is persisted.

In SharePoint 2013 with the new “CompatabilityLevel” parameter of Install -SPSolution cmdlet you can now deploy your .wsp or Solution to either 14 hive or 15 hive or both.