I think I mis-wrote my question. When I asked what it is I meant it literally. Rather that what it does I wanted to know what it consists of. Is it simply a load of DLL files that make up the Microsoft.Sharepoint.* classes for use in ASP.NET code?
My first path to learning something new is knowing exactly what it is I'm dealing with. I find it helps if I can understand from the "bottom up".
I think I mis-wrote my question. When I asked what it is I meant it literally. Rather that what it does I wanted to know what it consists of. Is it simply a load of DLL files that make up the Microsoft.Sharepoint.* classes for use in ASP.NET code?
My first path to learning something new is knowing exactly what it is I'm dealing with. I find it helps if I can understand from the "bottom up".