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well, i'm pretty swamped and haven't had an opportunity to finish my template 101 whitepaper.  i came across new uploads on the gotdotnet sharepoint samples and found a presentation from mikefitz regarding site definitions.

as some of you may know (what i was writing in my little whitepaper) is that frontpage editing breaks the ghosting of your template...here's an excerpt from the presentation (forgive the copy/paste formatting).  check out the presentation and other stuff on the gotdotnet sharepoint space

  • *Pages and list schema are read from the site definition files
    and cached at IIS process startup
    • Page source is on the disk, not in the DB
    • Pulled from the cache at runtime
    • It still appears to be present in the site, hence the term “ghosted”
  • *Pages are only written to the database when customized within a site
    • Browser-based customization (i.e. adding/removing web parts) does not change the actual ASPX pages, hence doesn’t unghost
    • FrontPage customization often changes ASPX pages
  • *Maximizes scalability
    • *Reuse un-customized pages across sites
    • *Reduce unnecessary data storage and retrieval

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