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SharePoint is an extensible platform that allows developers and third-party software vendors to integrate custom applications into the product. In fact, the sole focus of many companies is to sell products that build on top of SharePoint. This makes SharePoint much more flexible as a base product.

Deploying custom code manually to SharePoint is a risky and burdensome task. You typically need to copy files manually to multiple servers, edit web.config files, and manually make UI changes. And that’s not all—when new servers are added to the farm, these changes need to be applied all over again. When performing a disaster recovery or an upgrade, you may also need to re-apply the custom changes.

Fortunately, SharePoint is able to ...

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