Sharepoint Terms

This page provides definitions for common terms relating to SharePoint.

SharePoint

• It helps team members to connect and exchange information in a collaborative manner. It helps to centralize enterprise information for efficient functioning.
• It unites all the documents into one centralize place and unifies the data transport mechanism.
• It is a central enterprise information portal.

Application Pages

• Application pages are generic pages which will be used by all the sites in a site collection.
• These are generic pages which are shared across sites.
• These pages can be found in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\Template\Layouts

Site Pages

• Site pages are customized pages and are saved into content database.

SafeMode Parser

• Safe mode parser is a page parser provided by SharePoint. It loads the page that is stored in the content database.

         When a page is requested, it first checks in the document table and then goes to the content table to load the page. If it does not find data of the page, it goes to the file directory to load the page. This loading is done by ASP.Net runtime itself. But if there is data present in the content table then it is loaded by the SafeMode parser.


Virtual Path Provider

• It is an abstraction which loads the page from the content or the file system depending on whether it is customized or common pages and passes the same to the ASP.Net run time.

Web Part

• It is a kind of a web control which can be deployed in a web part zone control.

Data View Web Part

• It displays data with rich design support through SharePoint designer.

List View Web Part

• It helps to display list content for any list in the SharePoint site.

Image Web Part

• It helps to display image files.

Content Editor Web Part

• It is use to display static HTML content using a WYSIWYG editor or to link to a text file. It supports writing JavaScript.

Members Web Part

• It helps to display members of the site.

Page Viewer Web Part

• It displays web page in an iframe.
• It can be used to show an external application.

Shared Services Provider

• It is a set of services provided by MOSS which can be shared across multiple server farms.

.eml

• It is an industry standard use by email clients, servers and applications.
• It contains the entire message, including body text and attachments.

XSLT

• XSLT stands for Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations. It is use to transform XML documents into other formats like XHTML.

CAML

• CAML stands for Categorial Abstract Machine Language. This language is XML-based and is used to customize and build SharePoint sites.

jQuery

• It can be defined as an easy JavaScript.
• It is a JavaScript library or API that will able you to do script in one line of code instead of ten or more lines of JavaScript.

Content Database

• It is where SharePoint stores all its data.

Event Handler

• It is a server-side code that is called when registered events occur within the SharePoint environment. 
• Custom event handlers can be added or attached to and have a scope of Web application, site collection, Web site, list, or document library.