Sharepoint: Site vs Application Pages

1)Site pages support customisation while application pages do not.
2)Application pages allow in-line code.


Example of site pages are the home page, and pages that have lists.

Sharepoint: Page Ghosting

Page Ghosting - The page template is loaded from the file system of the web server. No access to the content database is required. The opposite of this occurs when you have saved customised a page -changes are saved to the content database. This is known as unghosted pages.

The SPVirtualPathProvider is responsible for retrievin unghosted pages from the content database.

Sharepoint: Two methods for Restarting an Application Pool

Two different methods for restarting an application pool

1) IISRESET

-this restarts all the processes associated with IIS

2) cscript.exe c:\windows\system32\iisapp.vbs /a ""DefaultAppPool"

- This restarts a specific application npool (/a parameter with the name of IIS application pool)

Sharepoint: Customisation vs Personalisation

Personalisation - changes made are only seen by the person making them,

Customisation - seen by all users, performed by administrators.

Sharepoint stores personalisation and customisation separately in the content database.