SharePoint FAQi (Frequently Asked Questions in Interviews )

  - Why this….. heck.. you know why…

There are some typical interview questions which we face almost in any SharePoint interview.. thus I thought to put them in one place such that I can go thru all of them once night before…

Q: When should you dispose SPWeb and SPSite objects? And even more important, when not?

 

A: You should always dispose them if you created them yourself, but not otherwise. You should never dispose SPContext.Current.Web/Site and you should normally not dispose SPWeb if IsRootWeb is true. More tricky constructs are things along the line of SPList.ParentWeb.

Reference:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rogerla/archive/2008/02/12/sharepoint-2007-and-wss-3-0-dispose-patterns-by-example.aspx

Q. In brief, the key feature areas of MOSS include the following:
A:

Collaboration — Document libraries/tasks/calendars, blogs, wikis, e - mail integration, project management “ lite, ” Office Outlook 2007 integration, offline documents, and lists.
Portal — Enterprise portal template, site directory, my sites, social networking, and privacy control .
Search — Enterprise scalability, contextual relevance, rich people and business data search .
Content Management — Integrated document management, records management, WCM with policies and workflow .
Business Forms — Rich and Web - forms - based front ends, line of business (LOB) actions, pluggable single sign - on (SSO) .
Business Intelligence — Server - based Office Excel 2007 spreadsheets and data visualization, report center, BI Web Parts, key performance indicators (KPIs)/dashboards .

I will keep on adding question from SharePoint, .Net, SQL etc., and would request you all to post yours as well.

This is in continuation to my earlier post on Site Pages. In this post………

Thanks for reading.. Please post the questions you faced and which you think is important also.

...HaPpY CoDiNg

Partha (Aurum)