Understanding SharePoint Apps SharePoint 2013
Why Apps? For far too long both IT Pros and Developers have relied solely on full trust solutions, whether speaking about SharePoint or another platform. Having full trust to the box at all times just isn’t the way we want to do things nowadays! As we all know, the flexibility of full trust solutions makes for unpredictability of a platform. That model can make IT Pros feel like their fate is in the hands of the developers and often require them to clean up the mess come upgrade time or after an outage. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been onsite for critical situations (a.k.a. critsits) involving custom code and memory leaks. Of course we shouldn’t tarnish all developers with that brush. Furthermore, full trust solutions are unfeasible on a hosted platform such as Office 365 . SharePoint 2010 took a step in the right direction with sandboxed solutions. Sandboxed solutions provided a way to is...