SPMetal

SPMetal is a command-line tool that generates entity classes, which provide an object-oriented interface to the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation content databases. These classes are primarily used in LINQ to SharePoint queries; but they are also used to add, delete, and change list items with concurrency conflict resolution. Finally, they can be used as an alternative to the regular SharePoint Foundation object model for referencing content.

Trace Logging ULS logs

As developers, you can take advantage of the trace log when you are developing code. Use trace logs as an extension of your development tools and as another debugging tool, to help you investigate issues. By ensuring that useful information is written to the trace log, many issues that arise in development can be resolved without attaching a debugger. Also, a tester can review trace logs to discover problems that may not be visible in the User Interface (UI), and a tester can use trace logs to verify completion of long-running tasks that may not have any UI associated with the actions.

site definition

A site definition defines a unique type of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation website. Several site definitions are built into SharePoint Foundation. A site definition can include more than one site definition configuration. A SharePoint Foundation website is based on particular site definition configuration. For this reason, you can think of a site definition as a family of configurations, although some families contain only one configuration.

SPWebProvisioningProvider

Provides a handler for responding to Web site creation.

ImportUserResources

Imports user resources for the specified language.

PlaceHolderAdditionalPageHead

A Content Place Holder for placing additional header information.  For example, you can use this section to reference custom style sheets.

CssLink Class

Inserts a LINK element into the resulting HTML page and applies an external style sheet(s) defined by CssRegistration.

CssRegistration Class

Represents a cascading style sheet (CSS) file registration. CssLink reads this registration to insert a LINK element into the resulting HTML page and apply the external style sheet(s) defined by the registration.

ScriptLink Class

Provides properties and methods for registering resources, such as scripts, on a page so that they can be requested when the page is rendered.

DelegateControl Class

A generic control that is able to render an ASP.NET control. Delegate controls make their child candidate controls pluggable and replaceable.

Workflow Actions Files

A workflow actions file (.actions) is an XML file that describes how SharePoint Designer should interact with your workflow activities. Primarily, this file provides a human-readable sentence structure that is wrapped around the mechanics of your activity. The workflow actions file consists of a parent WorkflowInfo element that can contain conditions and actions.

TermStore Class

Represents a store that contains metadata within child Group objects, TermSet objects, and Term objects.

TaxonomySession Class

Wraps up all of the associated TermStore objects for a SPSite object.

Group Class

Represents the top-level container in a TermStore object. 

TermSet Class

Represents a hierarchical or flat set of Term objects known as a "TermSet".

SPWebConfigModification Class

Holds modifications that are made to the web.config.

SPWebConfigModification Class

Holds modifications that are made to the web.config.

EntityQueryControl Class

This class and its members are reserved for internal use and are not intended to be used in your code. 

ApplicationAssociationsView Class

Provides a control that is used to display and change associations for service application proxy groups.

ServiceModel Metadata Utility Tool (Svcutil.exe)

The ServiceModel Metadata Utility tool is used to generate service model code from metadata documents and metadata documents from service model code.

System.ServiceModel.Configuration Namespace

This namespace contains configuration classes that are used by the infrastructure to convert XML into Common Language Runtime (CLR) types. You can also manipulate these classes directly for extensibility purposes.

WsdlEndpointConversionContext Class

Passed to custom WSDL exporters and importers to enable customization of the metadata export and import processes for a WSDL endpoint. 

ServiceModel Registration Tool (ServiceModelReg.exe)

This command-line tool provides the ability to manage the registration of WCF and WF components on a single machine. Under normal circumstances you should not need to use this tool as WCF and WF components are configured when installed. But if you are experiencing problems with service activation, you can try to register the components using this tool.

SPAutoSerializingObject.UpgradedPersistedProperties Property

 Gets the collection of field names and values for fields that were deleted or changed.

SPAutoSerializingObject.UpdateParent Method

Causes the containing SPPersistedObject, if one exists, to update its state. 

Content Types

A content type is a reusable collection of metadata (columns), workflow, behavior, and other settings for a category of items or documents in a Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 list or document library. Content types enable you to manage the settings for a category of information in a centralized, reusable way.

Sandboxed solutions

A Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 solution is a deployable, reusable package that can contain features, site definitions, and other functionality. Solutions can be enabled or disabled individually. You can deploy a solution directly onto your SharePoint Server farm, or you can deploy the solution into a sandbox. A sandbox is a restricted execution environment that enables programs to access only certain resources, and that keeps problems that occur in the sandbox from affecting the rest of the server environment. Solutions that you deploy into a sandbox, which are known as sandboxed solutions, cannot use certain computer and network resources, and cannot access content outside the site collection they are deployed in. For more information about solutions, see Solutions Overview(http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=156638).

SPNavigationNode Class

Represents a node in a hierarchical navigation structure for a Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Web site.

SPDisposeCheck.exe utility 

 SPDisposeCheck Static Analysis Ruleset allows SharePoint architects and developers to ensure SharePoint APIs are properly disposed using static analysis. It supports both VS2008 and VS2010 projects.

SPSecurityContext Class

Provides a static utility class that contains properties and methods to work with the security context of the current user.

SPProxyOperation Class

Represents an abstract class that is used to execute operations that are prevented in the shim, in the proxy process of the UserCode service. A subclass of this class can be passed to the ExecuteProxyOperation(String, String, SPProxyOperationArgs) method. 

SPResourceMeasure Class

Encapsulates the administrative thresholds and logic that regulates how a server/OS resource participates into global server resource usage.

SPSecurity Class

Provides static security management properties and methods.

WebPart.GetToolParts Method

Determines which tool parts are displayed in the tool pane of the Web-based Web Part design user interface, and the order in which they are displayed.

Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration Namespace

Provides administrative types and members that can be used to manage a Microsoft SharePoint Foundation deployment.

SPDiagnosticsServiceBase.WriteTrace Method

Writes a trace to the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation trace log.

SP.ListOperation.Selection.getSelectedItems() Method

WebPartTransformer Class

Provides basic implementation for transformer classes to convert data between two incompatible connection points.

WebPartTransformer.Transform Method

When implemented, provides an object for transforming the data.

IWebEditable Interface

Provides an interface for developers to specify custom editing controls that are associated with a WebPart control.

WebDisplayNameAttribute Class

 Defines the friendly name for a property of a Web Parts control.

PublishingContext Class

Adding this control to a Publishing page creates input fields on the page that are important for authoring-related operations.

ValidatorAggregator Class

Represents a list of validators for a control.

EditModePanel Class

Provides a container that shows or hides its child controls based on the mode of the page.

PublishingPageStatusIndicator Class

The output of this control is text that represents the status of the current page, such as published, waiting for approval, approved, or rejected. This text is rendered as a link to a dialog box with information about the page versions.

WebTemp*.xml Files

Each server in a deployment of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation has at least the originally installed WebTemp.xml file located in the %ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\TEMPLATE\LCID\XML folder, where LCID is the numeric ID of the language/culture, such as 1033 for English. There may also be one or more custom WebTemp*.xml files. The WebTemp*.xml files contain an itemization of the site definition configurations that are available in the user interface (UI) for users to select when they create a new website. The UI varies depending on whether the Microsoft Silverlight or HTML site creation page is being used.

HideCustomAction Element

CustomAction Element

SPDiagnosticsServiceBase Class

Provides a diagnostic logging category manager for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation.

Trace Class

Provides a set of methods and properties that help you trace the execution of your code. This class cannot be inherited.

SPUtility Class

Provides tools for converting date and time formats, for obtaining information from user names, for modifying access to sites, and for various other tasks in managing deployments of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation.

Because all the methods of the SPUtility class are static, you do not need to instantiate the class to use them.

SPFile.SPCheckOutType Enumeration

Describes how a file is checked out of a document library.

SPFeature Class

Represents the state of a feature at its corresponding scope.

The presence of an SPFeature object in a collection at the server farm, Web application, site collection, or Web site level indicates that the Feature is activated. Lack of anSPFeature object indicates that the object has not been activated.

Use the Features property of the SPWebService, SPWebApplication, SPSite, or SPWebclass to get the collection of Features that are activated in the server farm, Web application, site collection, or Web site. Use the SiteFeatures or WebFeatures property of the SPContext class to get the collection of Features for the current site collection or site.

Use an indexer to return a single Feature from the collection. For example, if the collection is assigned to a variable named collFeatures, use collFeatures[index]in C#, or collFeatures(index) in Visual Basic, where index is the GUID of the feature.

SPFeatureReceiver Class

Defines methods that are called when a Feature is installed, uninstalled, activated, deactivated, or upgraded.

It is not possible to cancel an installation or uninstallation through Feature events.

SPFeatureCollection Class

Represents a collection of SPFeature objects.

Use the Features property of theMicrosoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebApplication,Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService, SPSite, or SPWeb class to get the collection of Features that are activated in the Web application, Web service, site collection, or site. Use the SiteFeatures or WebFeatures property of the SPContext class to get the collection of activated Features for the current site collection or site.

The existence of a Feature object within one of these collections indicates that it has been activated within the given scope. To activate a Feature, you must install it in the server farm; to install a feature, use an Add method of the SPFeatureCollection class.

Use an indexer to return a single Feature object from the collection. For example, if the collection is assigned to a variable named collFeatures, use collFeatures[index]in C#, or collFeatures(index) in Visual Basic, where index is the GUID of theFeature object.

SPFormContext.EnableInputFieldLabels Property

Gets or sets a Boolean value that specifies whether the Edit or New form uses edit or add mode field labels.

SPFormContext.FieldControlCollection Property

Gets an ArrayList that stores the field controls in the form.

SPFormContext.FormMode Property

Property Value

Type: Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.SPControlMode
An Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.SPControlMode value that specifies the control mode. Possible values include Display, Edit, Invalid, and New.

Onet.xml Files

When Microsoft SharePoint Foundation is installed, several Onet.xml files are installed—one in %ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\TEMPLATE\GLOBAL\XML that applies globally to the deployment, and several in different folders within %ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\TEMPLATE\SiteTemplates. Each file in the latter group corresponds to a site definition that is included with SharePoint Foundation. They include, for example, Blog sites, the Central Administration site, Meeting Workspace sites, and team SharePoint sites. Only the last two of these families contain more than one site definition configuration.

The global Onet.xml file defines list templates for hidden lists, list base types, a default definition configuration, and modules that apply globally to the deployment. Each Onet.xml file in a subdirectory of the %ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\TEMPLATE\SiteTemplates directory can define navigational areas, list templates, document templates, configurations, modules, components, and server email footers that are used in the site definition to which it corresponds.

Web Parts Control Description Files

Web Parts control description files contain property values, state data, and assembly or source file details exported from a WebPart control (or other ASP.NET server or user control used in a Web Parts application) to an XML file with a .WebPart extension. A description file is used by the Web Parts import feature to import the control it describes into a Web Parts page, and to configure the imported control with the saved data. This topic describes the basic structure and XML elements included in a description file.

Using the REST Interface

The SharePoint 2010 Representational State Transfer (REST) interface is a WCF Data Service that allows you to use construct HTTP requests to query SharePoint list data. Like all RESTful Web services, the SharePoint REST interface maps HTTP verbs to data operations, as shown in the following table.

Standard WebParts

Can be using in sandboxed solutions.

Feature.xml Files

In a Feature.xml file, the Feature element defines a Feature and specifies the location of assemblies, files, dependencies, or properties that support the Feature.

Feature

  ActivationDependencies

    ActivationDependency

  ElementManifests

    ElementFile

    ElementManifest

  Properties

    Property

  UpgradeActions Element (Feature)

    AddContentTypeField Element (Feature)

    ApplyElementManifests Element (Feature)

      ElementFile Element (Feature)

      ElementManifest Element (Feature)

    CustomUpgradeAction Element (Feature)

      Parameters Element (Feature)

        Parameter Element (Feature)

    MapFile Element (Feature)

    VersionRange Element (Feature)

      AddContentTypeField Element (Feature)

      ApplyElementManifests Element (Feature)

      CustomUpgradeAction Element (Feature)

      MapFile Element (Feature)

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BaseType Element (Site)