Random Screenshot: A “Blank” SharePoint Site in a GNOME Folder
So let’s take a peek at what Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) generates for a “Blank” Collaboration Site. What jumps out at my inexperience with the inelegant innards of SharePoint is the absence of .ASPX files. There’s locale resources, some FrontPage-looking (WebDAV) stuff, some kind of browser capability database (see “Add Blackberry support to Forms Server 2007 or SharePoint 2007”), a *.DLL file for SOAP, a *.DLL file for ‘application pages,’ two different web.config files and the global.asax file that is probably doing most of the heavy lifting.
I assume the rest of the site is in the Content Database. And, oh, by the way, I had some kind of disk catastrophe yesterday and lost a 300meg WSS Content Database! Because the log had some open transactions I could not recover the database. I got almost everything back as disk files (not in SharePoint) from a backup.