Chapter 4. Sandboxed Solutions

Sandboxed solutions are Microsoft SharePoint Foundation features that are deployed into a partially trusted environment referred to as the sandbox. The sandbox is designed to bring greater stability to a SharePoint farm by restricting actions that could cause problems with performance, security, or other areas. This stability is achieved by limiting the functionality accessible to custom code solutions through the use of code access security (CAS) policies and by restricting access to portions of the object model.

The sandbox is a new capability for SharePoint Foundation and represents one of the most significant changes to the SharePoint developer platform. Because of the benefits the sandbox offers, developers should ...

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