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When a site is provisioned SharePoint doesn’t really copy the pages for that site (i.e. default.aspx) into a new database table or directory. These files exist only once on each of the front end web servers. Instead SharePoint creates a reference to those files in the database tables that define the new site. This is called “ghosting”.

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Default List pages (NewForm.aspx/EditForm.aspx) and breadcrumbs

All, My understanding of SharePoint is that NewForm.aspx/EditForm.aspx et al. are Application Pages that for each List are initially fetched from the Hive directly and processed by ASP.NET, but can ...
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PublishingWeb GetAvailablePageLayouts won't give the complete available layouts list

I have a problem with the PublishingWeb.GetAvailablePageLayouts method. When I call it, it misses a couple of layouts I have deployed in my style library folder. Let me explain: I have a feature ...
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