I recently install Sharepoint 2013 on a server and I want to change the presentation of my site by modifying pages and master pages.
In Sharepoint 2010 we can modify master pages easily using Sharepoint Designer 2010.
The problem is Design view remove from Sharepoint Designer 2013...and recently I DO NOT UNDERSTAND MICROSOFT.
Can any one introduce me some reference how I can change SharePoint 2013 page design? Can we modify existing SharePoint master page by Visual Studio?
Yes you can use Visual Studio to change SharePoint 2013 master pages. You can also use Notepad. Basically, any text editor will do, and you no longer have to use SharePoint Designer in order to edit a SharePoint 2013 master page. With tools like Visual Studio or Dreamweaver you get a WYSISYG interface.
This Technet blog post describes how to use Dreamweaver and Design Manager http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2012/07/27/using-dreamweaver-and-design-manager-with-sharepoint-2013.aspx
Here is anther walk-through with Dreamweaver and Design Manager: http://oztripwire.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/sharepoint-2013-branding-master-and.html
You can use any editor of your choice with sharepoint 2013. Activate the publishing features to get the Design manager feature available under site settings.
You can visit Design manager-> Upload design files and then map the location as a network drive. Then you can access your design files, master pages and page layouts etc in any editor.
For more details
http://knytesh.com/2015/10/15/getting-started-with-design-manager-in-sharepoint-2013/ to get to know how to create masterpages and page layouts without using sharepoint designer and using any editor of your choice and design manager.
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For the last two weeks I have been searching for a subject...
I'm an ASP.NET C# developer and I want to create a website that allows the use of CMS systems + .net pages,
I have seen some CMS like dotnetnuke, kentico, wordpress, MOTO, and so on...
Now, what is the best way to incorporate these two together... ASP.NET Pages (I create those) and some pages where I want the user to be able to use a CMS system to modify them.
Some people say I can use Wordpress site on one domain, then in the same hosting I create another to host my ASP.NET application... and use links to navigate to each others...
Is this the best way?
I'm completely confused on what to decide.
In Kentico CMS you can benefit from wide range of development models. List of those you could be interested in follows:
Portal engine - pages are completely controlled by Kentico (design, content, properties, etc.)
ASPX - you develop ASPX pages in Visual Studio and use them in Kentico as they are. You can still edit their general properties (regarding urls, security, caching, etc).
Mixed - you create your pages in Visual Studio and use Kentico (server/user) controls which will allow you to edit design & content in Kentico UI.
See Orchard CMS:
http://www.orchardproject.net/
Just assigning the right roles to users you get what you want. This CMS is writen in .Net and it license allows you to use it for any purpose.
I have very less idea about Sharepoint but I am very much familiar with ASP.NET. Now I need to develop a master page for sharepoint site. I believe, for that either I can use Sharepoint designer or Visual Studio.
Being a basic ASP.NET developer I can design a page with .. etc tags and not Sharepoint specific design feature.
Is there any way I can use a Master page of ASP.NET application in SharePoint, as a Master page?
Check out Heather Solomon's Blog, she has awesome info for dealing with master pages and also branding/design for SharePoint and provides some base master page files to help you get started.
Is it possible to user Dreamweaver to edit (design not code) an ASP.net website instead of Microsoft Expression web? Does Dreamweaver support master pages or ASP.net controls?
Everything is ok with Dreamweaver, you can easily edit websites on it (note that you have to republish the final website again).
It is a IDE like Visual Studio or Expression etc. Nothing weird about it.
We are standardizing on Visual Studio 2010 for application development, along with implementing Team Foundation Server. What we are curious about is how can we setup a master page (i.e. site master) that will contain items we want on every page such as site navigation and company logo so that anytime someone in the company at any location creates a new project we can ensure they are using this site master page?
You can create a custom Project template.
You simply start a new project.
Add/modify as much as you need.
Use the "Export Template" wizard from the File menu.
This will create a zip file which will need to be installed on each desktop's copy of Visual Studio ("Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Templates\ProjectTemplates" usually), but once there will allow the user to select File>New Project and select "Corporate Standard Wesite" as the project type (for example).
How to add custom ASP.NET pages into sharepoint?
I am very new to sharepoint but what I realized is that I can only make plain text pages or links. but what if I have a website already built in ASP.NET and want to add it through sharepoint.
Or is it possible to build the website itself from sharepoint including dynamic server side controls like buttons, trees ....
Simple answer: put your *.aspx files in inside the _layouts folder, usually located at
c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\
afterwards you can access you page (named page1.aspx for example) through the sharepoint site by:
http://your site name/_layouts/page1.aspx
You can have inline code and/or code-behind, just like in a normal aspx page.
However, please note that pages added through this method are called application pages, meaning that they cannot be customized (easily) by the user and are available under all site collections in your farm.
SharePoint supports another kind of pages, called Site Pages which are site-specific, you can read more about them here.
See these questions which should cover everything you need:
How would you convert an ASP.NET site to work as a SharePoint site?
Moving from custom ASP.NET application to Sharepoint Services
Deploying custom Asp.net applications to same IIS site as Sharepoint
SharePoint - ASP.Net Controls Integration
Sharepoint controls in ASP.NET application
Also this page on SharePoint Dev Wiki.
This Visual How To walks you through the process of creating an application page step by step.
Creating an Application Page in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-ca/library/bb418732.aspx
The presenter of the video, Ted Pattison, has a book that is a great resource to help you get up and started with SharePoint development.
Inside Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0735623201?tag=g6consulswebs-20
If you want some .aspx-Pages in a SharePoint-Website, you can build a SharePoint-Module Feature containing the .aspx-Pages.
See How to: Provision a File and Create and Use a SharePoint Feature Package