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What is the difference between Application Pages and Content Pages in SharePoint?



Posted By: admin Date: 29 December 2009 11:46:11 AM
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Content pages are basically built to display and manage site content. Content pages can be customized by end users from within the SharePoint user interface or with Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer. When you create a SharePoint site, many content pages are created automatically, for example, home page (default.aspx) of the as well as the pages associated with lists and document libraries, such as AllItems.aspx, NewForm.aspx, and EditForm.aspx, and several others. Logically all content pages are stored within their SharePoint sites. Physically all the content pages that have not been customized, also known as uncustomized or ghosted pages, are stored on disk on the front-end Web server, while content pages that have been customized, also known as customized or unghosted pages, are stored in their associated SharePoint content database.

Application pages are basically built for site management activities. Application pages does not support customization and typically created to allow users to manage settings for lists, sites, and site collections. Application pages are stored typically in the file system of the front-end Web server within a directory "c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS". settings.aspx, viewlsts.aspx, etc. are few examples of application pages which you can find in the layouts directory.


Posted By: eTechPlanet

Date: 29 December 2009 11:46:11 AM

An application page is an ASP.NET Web page that is designed for use in a SharePoint Web site. Application pages are a specialized type of ASP.NET page. The primary difference between an application page and a standard ASP.NET page is that an application page contains content that is merged with a SharePoint master page. A master page enables application pages to share the same appearance and behavior as other pages on a site.
Visual Studio enables you to design application pages by using a designer. The designer displays a content area for each content placeholder that is defined in a master page. You can design the application page by dragging controls to these content areas.


Posted By: Daniel

Date: 16 February 2010 03:02:15 AM
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