Web Parts Available in SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010

The final comparison for this chapter covers web parts available in the different versions of SharePoint 2010 products. Web parts are the modules of code that can be added to a page to provide views of data contained within lists or libraries on the site or to perform other tasks such as filter data or display a video on a page. Essentially, web parts are the units of construction the page designer has at his disposal to present text, data, and graphics to site visitors, so the more web parts available, the more flexibility the designer has in creating pages and sites.

It stands to reason that SharePoint Foundation 2010 would provide a smaller selection of web parts ...

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