Choosing a development path

In the previous sections we reviewed the capabilities along with some advantages and disadvantages of each of the development and customization paths. Choosing the right path for your solution requires that you consider your environment and the requirements of the solution.

Environment considerations

There are a number of environment variables to consider that have an immediate impact on your development options.

Cloud Environments

Since cloud based SharePoint environments do not support farm solutions, sandboxed solutions and client-side code represent the sole methods for creating customizations. Even if you are not in the cloud today, it would be a good idea to consider if that is a possibility in the next few years. ...

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