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516 Glossary
customized Web page A Web page that is stored
in the SQL Server content database. Previously
known as an unghosted Web page in Windows
SharePoint Services 2.0, where they caused
significant performance implications. These
performance implications have mostly been
removed from Windows SharePoint Services
3.0 and Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010
with the use of ASP.NET 2.0, master pages, and
SharePoint features. Web pages cannot be
customized using the browser, but they can be
customized by using SharePoint Designer.
custom master page This is a site property, represented
by the token ~masterurl/customer.
master, that is used by publishing pages in a
publishing site.
Data Form Web Part (DFWP) A Web Part that
reads data from and writes data to a data
source in the form of XML and applies XSLT to
it. SharePoint Designer allows you to add Data
Form Web Parts to a Web Part page and has
a WYSIWYG XSLT editor, so you don’t need to
know XSLT to customize a Data Form Web Part.
Data View Web Part (DVWP) A Web Part that
allows you to view and manage data coming
from different data sources. See Data Form
Web Part (DFWP).
default master This is a site property, represented
by the token ~masterurl/default.master,
that points to a master page that is used by all
pages in your site.
Design view Displays the page in the SharePoint
Designer workspace as it would appear in a
browser and provides a WYSIWYG editing
environment.
dirty page A page that you have changed using
SharePoint Designer but have not saved.
Denoted by an asterisk on the page tab.
dynamic-link library (DLL) A shared program library,
also known as an assembly. For example,
when you create a solution for SharePoint in
Visual Studio 2010 that includes several class
or program files and then build that solution,
Visual Studio generates a file name with the
extension .dll.
ECT See external content type.
Extensible Application Markup Language
(XAML) A language used by the Windows
Workflow Foundation (WF) to describe
workflows.
eXtensible Markup Language (XML) A defined
markup language for documents that describes
document content and structure rather than
appearance. An XML document has to be formatted
before it can be read, and the formatting
is usually accomplished by using an XSL
template file.
eXtensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) A language
used to create stylesheets for XML,
similar to CSS (cascading style sheets) used for
HTML. XSL Transformations (XSLT) can be used
to transform XML to HTML or to another type
of XML.
eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation
(XSLT) A language for transforming XML documents
into other XML documents.
external content type (ECT) Represents data
that is stored in an external data source, such
as a SQL Server or other relational database,
SharePoint, and Web services. ECTs are created
using SharePoint Designer 2010 or Visual
Studio 2010.
external data column A column in a list or library
that stores data that originally existed outside
SharePoint.
external list Used to present data that is stored
outside SharePoint.
feature Allows you to activate/deactivate functionality
in a site, site collection, Web application,
or farm.
field controls Used on page layouts to define
the strict layout and data entry constraints of
content. They bind to columns in the Pages
publishing library.