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SharePoint Thing a Day – 040 – Development. You Still Need to Know the Server Side Object Model.

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You Still Need to Know the Server Side Object Model

#spthingaday 040 – Development. You Still Need to Know the Server Side Object Model. #SharePoint, #Office365, #Development.. You can't program against it Online, and you definitely shouldn't on-premise, but for a SharePoint developer, knowledge of the SSOM is still vital. So, here are the highlights: The top-level object is SPFarm, and SPFarm.Local lets you access the current farm only. Under this is a collection of SPService objects. Each SPService relates to an actual installed service in your SharePoint farm. SPServiceInstance refers to a service running on a particular server. SPFarm also has a collection of SPServiceApplications, mainly for admin use. There's also a collection of SPWebApplications, each of which has a collection of SPContentDatabase objects. SPWebApplications also have a strongly-typed collection of SPSites – Site Collections – called SPSiteCollection. Each SPSite has a collection of SPWeb objects. SPSite also has a RootWeb property that points to the top-level SPWeb object. So, which class refers to a SharePoint Site Collection? SPSite. Which class refers to a SharePoint Site or Subsite? SPWeb. Simples :) #microsoft #microsoftoffice #microsoftsharepoint #microsofttraining #officetraining #freetraining #trainingvideos #contentmanagement #enterprisecontentmanagement

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You can’t program against it Online, and you definitely shouldn’t on-premise, but for a SharePoint developer, knowledge of the SSOM is still vital.

So, here are the highlights:

The top-level object is SPFarm, and SPFarm.Local lets you access the current farm only.

Under this is a collection of SPService objects.

Each SPService relates to an actual installed service in your SharePoint farm.

SPServiceInstance refers to a service running on a particular server.

SPFarm also has a collection of SPServiceApplications, mainly for admin use.

There’s also a collection of SPWebApplications, each of which has a collection of SPContentDatabase objects.

SPWebApplications also have a strongly-typed collection of SPSites – Site Collections – called SPSiteCollection.

Each SPSite has a collection of SPWeb objects.

SPSite also has a RootWeb property that points to the top-level SPWeb object.

So, which class refers to a SharePoint Site Collection?

SPSite.

Which class refers to a SharePoint Site or Subsite?

SPWeb.

Simples :)