Learning SharePoint 2013

As SharePoint 2013 hits the floor, let's start learning it as soon as possible. To start with we need to learn it's basic structure.

It's based on .Net framework 4.5. The major changes are in the development area where Microsoft has launched App model which i am going to discuss more in my coming posts. Basic look & feel will be as below:

If we go to Site Settings:

Other major enhancements are 


Continuous Crawl: There has been a major upgrade to the crawling and indexing components in SharePoint Search. Now each and every document would be available to user instantly.

Cross-site Publishing: Cross-site publishing lets you store and maintain content in one or more authoring site collections, and display this content in one or more publishing site collections. When you change the content in an authoring site collection, those changes are now displayed on all site collections that are reusing this content.This feature helps ensure content is consistent when shared across several different areas and sites. 

SkyDrive: Users can now share documents and files from a personal SkyDrive or keep them secured for their personal use. SkyDrive files can still be indexed and located through search if they have been shared to that user.

Add Entries in Web.Config File in SharePoint 2010

It may depend on core client requirment to modify the configuration files. I came across such requirment and below is the way to modify your configuration file. Remember one thing, before doing this activity first you take a backup of your configuration file.

First add SharePoint administration namespace using below segment:
using Microsoft.Sharepoint.Administration;

Now you can write below code segment on a button's click event.

SPWebService service = SPWebService.ContentService;

SPWebConfigModification myModification = new SPWebConfigModification();
myModification.Path = "configuration/SharePoint/SafeControls";
myModification.Name = "SafeControl[@Assembly='MyCustomAssembly'][@Namespace='MyCustomNamespace'][@TypeName='*'][@Safe='True']";
myModification.Sequence = 0;
myModification.Owner = "User Name";//In my case i used System account
myModification.Type = SPWebConfigModification.SPWebConfigModificationType.EnsureChildNode;
myModification.Value = "<SafeControl Assembly='MyCustomAssembly' Namespace='MyCustomNamespace' TypeName='*' Safe='True' />";
service.WebConfigModifications.Add(myModification);

service.Update();
service.ApplyWebConfigModifications();