10. SharePoint Pages

Introduction to SharePoint Pages

SharePoint is built on top of ASP.NET and thus the SharePoint user interface consists entirely of ASP.NET pages. This makes it fairly simple for a developer with ASP.NET experience to customize and develop SharePoint pages. Although SharePoint provides great out-of-the-box capabilities to change the look and feel of the SharePoint user interface, there are certain requirements that cannot be met with the out-of-the-box customization capabilities that can only be met by customizing ASP.NET pages. For example, suppose your customer doesn’t like the default navigation structure of a SharePoint site, your customer needs a customized web part page that is different from the in-box templates, ...

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