SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit - It finally has an official name
The official name for a SharePoint nested location is yet to be announced, but developers are seeing some indication of it
OK, so technically it isn’t the official name, but we’re finally seeing some semblence of a name. As seasoned SharePoint developers know, you do a lot of work inside this nested location on the file system. In the two most current versions of SharePoint it was:
- SharePoint 2007: c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12
- SharePoint 2010: c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14
We all called it by various names. Some called them the ‘12 Hive’ or ‘14 Hive’ (which I never liked or understood since it had absolutely nothing to do with the registry). Now we’re seeing a real name for it in a few places: the SharePoint Root.
Personally I love this new tag… now we just say we’re referring to the SharePoint 2007 Root and most know exactly what we mean. Nice!