What You’ll Learn in This Hour:
• Understanding ASP.NET versus SharePoint
• Understanding the 14 Hive and SharePoint virtual directories
• Understanding SharePoint and SQL
• Introducing the SharePoint hierarchy
• Introducing service applications
Due to the complexity of the topics discussed, some figures in this book are very detailed and are intended only to provide a high-level view of concepts. Those figures are representational and not intended to be read in detail.
This hour explains the architecture of SharePoint 2010 and how it integrates with Internet Information Services (IIS) and ASP.NET. You learn exactly what happens behind the scenes when you install SharePoint and how SharePoint uses the wonderful extensibility of ASP.NET to build new components over ASP.NET.