SharePoint users have known how useful Web parts are for a long time, but it wasn't until recently that every .NET developer had access to the ease and grace of Web parts using ASP.NET 2.0. Find out how you can use these handy content containers to create Web sites that put routine content sharing capabilities into the hands of your end users.
by Robert Bogue
June 16, 2006
icrosoft released SharePoint to the market back in 2000/2001 and, in doing so, began a shift in perception about how Web applications are built. The change was slow at first and has yet to take over the way we build applications completely; however, the change has started.
Rather than the old way of building page after page of copied content, this change moves toward a development model for Websites that focuses on reusable, connectable, and user-configurable components that are assembled quickly in different ways to create the solutions that business users need. In the Sharepoint world, these reusable components are called Web parts.
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