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How are sandboxed solutions managed in Visual Studio 2010?
Sandboxed solutions are managed through a new Solution Gallery at the site collection level and farm-level tools found in Central Administration. Additionally, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 can deploy solutions directly to the sandbox during development.
What does sandbox mean in Microsoft SharePoint?
Sandboxed solutions are Microsoft SharePoint Foundation features that are deployed into a partially trusted environment referred to as the sandbox. The sandbox is designed to bring greater stability to a SharePoint farm by restricting actions that could cause problems with performance, security, or other areas.
Additionally, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 can deploy solutions directly to the sandbox during development. Enabling sandboxed solutions in a SharePoint farm is simple because it requires enabling only a single Windows service, the User Code Service.
Can a sandbox be used to enforce security boundaries?
The Sandbox Solution framework provides a mechanism for executing user-provided code outside of the IIS worker process. The Sandbox Solution framework should not be used as a mechanism for enforcing security boundaries when executing user code.
Enabling sandboxed solutions in a SharePoint farm is simple because it requires enabling only a single Windows service, the User Code Service. The User Code Service is responsible for managing the execution of sandboxed solutions across the farm.
What’s the difference between a sandboxed solution and a farm solution?
Figure 4-2 The Sandboxed Solution property affects the AllowPartiallyTrustedCallers attribute. From the perspective of Visual Studio, there is no difference between a sandboxed solution and a farm solution. Both solutions are packaged and built in exactly the same manner.
To reverse the changes and disable debugging, change the following XML in the web.config file: When you run your SharePoint project in debug mode, the SharePoint deployment process performs the following tasks: Runs the customizable pre-deployment commands. Creates a Web solution package (.wsp) file by using MSBuild commands.