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The process of developing software, including requirements gathering, solution design and analysis, implementation, testing, deployment, support and maintenance.

Software development (also known as application development, software design, designing software, software application development, enterprise application development, or platform development) is the development of a software product. The term "software development" may be used to refer to the activity of computer programming, which is the process of writing and maintaining the source code, but in a broader sense of the term it includes all that is involved between the conception of the desired software through to the final manifestation of the software, ideally in a planned and structured process. Therefore, software development may include research, new development, prototyping, modification, reuse, re-engineering, maintenance, or any other activities that result in software products.

Questions having the tag regard the development of custom code in the SharePoint environment.

Reference: Wikipedia - Software development

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Getting my head round spsite vs spweb vs anything else

I am fairly new to Sharepoint development (But learning it rapidly due to some initiatives I have in place - not exams). Anyway, one of my biggest stumbling blocks is the naming convention for objects. That is, spweb, spsite, etc. Is there an easy…
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When to use SPItem vs SPListItem

I am confused on when to use SPItem vs SPListItem—specifically when grabbing items from a document library. What are the benefits of each and downsides of each.
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What is the best practice for securely storing a connection string in SharePoint?

I'm writing an application page in SharePoint and I want to securely store the connection string. I've used a variety of methods before but they all seem a little "suspect". What is the recommended approach for securely storing connection strings in…
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How to download the historical file version content using CSOM

I am trying to download the previous version of a document from _vti_history location of the file using client object model but the OpenBinaryDirect is giving not found 402 error for URL. My code is as given below public int…
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Getting Started with Sharepoint 2010 Development with no prior Sharepoint knowledge

My boss wants me to learn Sharepoint 2010 development (and he wants me to learn it now!). I have never done anything with Sharepoint. Where should I start? About Me: I am an Asp.net developer, and I know my way around .Net and the web ... I just…
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SharePoint -access to path is denied

I am working in SharePoint 2010. My requirement is to create folder inside SharePoint layouts and create a file inside that folder. Also I need to access the file for a current logged in user. Layouts-> Files-->file1.txt. Please check out the code…
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Get the current site url

How to get the current site url in SharePoint? I am using SPContext.Current.Site.Url but this returns parent site url. If I create a new site in existing site and activate my feature in it, and call it, it doesn't returns me current site url, it…
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Register a global.asax into a SharePoint Site

I'm trying add a .asax file into a SharePoint site. I've been following this tutorial. It's quite simple but I'm new to web programming, and I didn't understand where I must insert (and how) the .dll file generated by MyAssembly project. And…
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What are delegate controls for?

I just run this example: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms470880.aspx But I dont see what are delegate controls for, I can do this same thing with webparts or visual webparts, so what are the benefits?
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OpenWeb throws a HRESULT: 0x80131904 exception in SharePoint 2010, but works fine in a Console app. Why?

While debugging, the site looks fine, it's just web that doesn't load okay. Can't figure out why. Throws generic exception when attempting to access a property: HRESULT: 0x80131904 Any thoughts? Here is a snippet of code: using (SPSite site = new…
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SharePoint Hierarchy

Can someone please once and for all explain to me clearly how it is with SharePoint hierarchy? The names that are displayed are all mixed up, the names of classes are all mixed up and the diagrams like this: or this: never covers both names at…
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Is SharePoint 2010 Server mandatory on Developers workstation?

I have been a Developer during the Classic VB/ASP days. I remember that we used have Client Tools (Visual Studio, SQL Enterprise Manager) on Developers Desktop and there used to be seperate high-end Common Server for IIS/SQL, which developers used…
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How do you organize your sharepoint developments?

I am starting to do a lot of sharepoint development lately, and some of the things that I have done and I dont like is to use sharepoint designer directly for things like pagelayouts, lists definitions, master pages, etc. From my point of view I…
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What are the best resources for SharePoint 2010 development?

What are the best resources for SharePoint 2010 development? Please do one answer per answer.
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Change default welcome page

How to do the following but with code? my page name is actnow.aspx click the "Site Actions" menu bar, select "Site Settings" and then click on "Modify All Site Settings". Under the "Look and Feel" column is a link called "Welcome Page".
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