ASP.NET development could achieve more projects with the use of SharePoint or WSS

When it comes to ASP.NET with SharePoint concepts, developers should be aware of how to make easy the development of SharePoint applications. A prerequisite for a.NET developer is to have a basic knowledge of the differences of ASP.NET and SharePoint. Simply, SharePoint was a collaborative platform but has evolved through the years to become what it is nowadays, an integrated suite of server features that include enterprise search, content management, business connectivity services and information management.

Considerable changes were created in Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint 2009 to enhance the development experience and some of the familiar key concepts to ASP.NET development. It makes it easier for.NET developers wanting to target the SharePoint platform. When ASP.NET developers star to learn SharePoint development, they find a lot of familiar concepts. The SharePoint platform is built on top of the.NET framework and utilizes a lot of features of ASP.NET. The features include web part zones, web parts, security providers, master pages, session state managers and user controls on ASPX pages. ASP.NET development service providers could view SharePoint as being an extension of a framework that they are familiar and are knowledgeable about.

The base layer of SharePoint is called Windows SharePoint Services or WSS, built on top of the.NET. WSS provides a foundation for a ready-to-use collaborative app capabilities standard in SharePoint. Moreover, it’s also the foundation for custom web-based portal and collaborative business apps. The WSS 3.0 is licensed as a Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 component. In the event ASP.NET receives a request for a file, it first located it on the content database. The entry in content database informs ASP.NET that the file is based actually on a file on the file system and thus,.NET retries the file source on the file system when constructing a page. As ASP.NET and SharePoint developed over the years, there are more ready-made controls that have become available for use in applications. These controls allow to drop common and usually complicated features into a site. Microsoft has built the controls to easily add them to a website.

Below are some of the cool extensibility and integration scenarios in ASP.NET and SharePoint.

1. It is possible to create a web-part control supporting drag and drop user-personalization and customization and use within any ASP.NET 2.0 app or host it with SharePoint 2007 or WSS site.
2. Building of a class library, page or control using Roles, Membership, Profile or Site Navigation APIs and using it again across both custom ASP.NET app and a SharePoint/CMS site. SharePoint ships a bunch of SharePoint providers that plug-in utilizing the standard ASP.NET 2.0 Provider API.
3. Plug-in of own custom providers in extending SharePoint and WSS solutions the same way as one wants in a vanilla ASP.NET 2.0 sites. Since SharePoint uses the ASP.NET 2.0 API standards for things such as Membership, it means easy changes of the authentication mode and membership storage for SharePoint solutions.

All of the things above help drive and validate requirements down to the APIs shipped in ASP.NET. A developer could start more projects with the use of SharePoint or WSS and customize and enhance it further by using ASP.NET. Integrating ASP.NET into SharePoint concepts allow building and deploying really wonderful solutions faster and to make clients happier.

Asp.Net development has provided me great profitability as a developer. With the demand of.Net solutions, a lot of people are now looking to hire the services of a competent.Net programmer or developer.