Administrative Class Library

Article
07/24/2014

Applies to: SharePoint Foundation 2010

The administrative class library reference of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation includes the major public namespaces that are usable by third-party developers for solutions that run on servers (as distinct from running on a client) and that provide functionality for farm administrators, Web application administrators, and site collection administrators. (For lower-level functionality, see the Core class library reference. For classes that run on a client, see the Client API library reference.)

Major Namespaces

Namespace	Description
Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration	Provides classes for programmatically managing a SharePoint Foundation deployment.
Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.Backup	Provides classes for protecting data with backups, VSS point-in-time copies, and Microsoft SQL Server database snapshots.
Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment	Provides classes for importing and exporting content between SharePoint Foundation Web sites.
Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell	Provides classes for making custom Windows PowerShell cmdlets.
Microsoft.SharePoint.Security, Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.Claims, Microsoft.SharePoint.AdministrationOperation, Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.AccessControl, and Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel	Provides classes for setting and managing permissions, authentication, claims, and other aspects of security.
Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade	Provides classes and interfaces for upgrading a SharePoint Foundation deployment.
Microsoft.SharePoint.UserCode	Provides classes that enable management of Sandboxed Solutions in SharePoint 2010.

Administrative Class Library

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