A new version of Microsoft famous Collaboration portal called SharePoint. The version adds few new exciting features such as Social Feed,SharePoint Apps and cross-site publishing.
Development Changes
- In SharePoint 2013 Microsoft Introduced a new Cloud App Model for designing Apps for SharePoint. Apps for SharePoint are self-contained pieces of functionality that extend the capabilities of a SharePoint website. You can use HTML, CSS, JavaScript and protocols like the Open Data protocol (OData), and OAuth to communicate with SharePoint using Apps.
- Tools – SharePoint 2013 has Introduced new Tools for App development. Visual Studio 2012 now lets you develop apps for SharePoint and apps for Office. In addition a new web-based tools called “Napa” Office 365 Development Tools were introduced for developing apps.
- No more Sandbox solutions. SharePoint 2013 sandboxed solutions are
deprecated. So all we got is the New App model and the Old SharePoint
Farm solutions.
Social and Collaboration features
Microsoft in SharePoint 2013 Introduced new Social capabilities for better collaboration in the company.New Features added are -
- Interactive feed.
- Community Site.
- Follow people.
- Follow Sites.
- Consolidated Search Results.
- Rich Results Framework.
- keyword query language (KQL) enhancements.
SharePoint 2013 added some of the best capabilities of an ECM software. The newly added stuff is
- Design Manager.
- Managed Navigation.
- Cross-site Publishing.
- EDiscovery.
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