About CAML and its content

Question

Problem:
I have understood the foundation of CAML and there are some questions that are still unclear in my mind.

1. What context and when should a SP developer use CAML?

2. Why using CAML to retrieve data? what about stored procedure?

3. How common is it for a SP developer to use CAML?

4. Do you have a real based example when you used CAML?

Answer 1

CAML can be used in various ways to customize a SharePoint site, including the following:

• In script or code that implements members of the SharePoint Foundation object model, where CAML strings are passed through method parameters, assigned to properties, or returned by methods and properties
• In SOAP messaging that passes CAML strings to a SharePoint Foundation Web service to interact remotely with a deployment
• In front-end site definitions used to instantiate SharePoint sites
• In SharePoint Foundation Features to add specific functionality within a particular scope For supported SharePoint artificacts, always use CAML unless there is a reason not to. Use this link for more details.