Chapter 4. Introduction to Web Parts
Web parts are interesting additions to SharePoint. They were meant to be a convenient way to display things on the home page of SharePoint sites. They came in so handy that now they can be added to most of the pages of a SharePoint site. They needed to be resizable, movable, and self-contained. Somewhat like Konfabulator widgets, or sidebar gadgets, web parts are independent little applications that pull and display information from anywhere data might be available, such as the content database, file shares, or web pages. Numerous companies have been built on customizing SharePoint web parts into all kinds of useful things, probably well beyond the expectations of the original SharePoint developers.
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