Basic SharePoint Facts

SharePoint is a set of products and technologies with informative and collaborative web-based capabilities that help people create, organize, distribute, and maintain stored knowledge. SharePoint web sites and pages are commonly used to build intranet and extranet portals and team sites as well as public-facing Internet sites.

For this lab we build our own SharePoint Feature with dynamic capabilities. A SharePoint Feature is a collection of SharePoint elements that can help a user accomplish a particular goal or task. The uses of Features are quite broad. With our dynamic feature we will add a new Document Library to a SharePoint site and also will we provision a new custom Content Type. A Document Library is a SharePoint list in which documents together with metadata can be maintained. A Content Type describes this metadata, but is not necessarily linked to a particular list or Document Library. In fact, a Content Type can be shared among different lists and a list can contain information stored in many Content Types.