Solution:
- solution is a deployable, reusable package that can contain features, site definitions, and other functionality.
- Solutions can be enabled or disabled individually.
- You can deploy a solution directly onto your SharePoint Server farm, or you can deploy the solution into a sandbox.
Sandbox:
A sandbox is a restricted execution environment that enables programs to access only certain resources, and that keeps problems that occur in the sandbox from affecting the rest of the server environment.
Sandboxed Solution:
Solutions that you deploy into a sandbox, which are known as sandboxed solutions, cannot use certain computer and network resources, and cannot access content outside the site collection they are deployed in.
- Solutions Overview
- Sandboxed solutions overview (SharePoint Server 2010).
- Farm Solutions in SharePoint 2010
- Features in SharePoint Foundation
| Farm based Solution | Sandboxed Solution |
| A solution package is deployed to the farm’s solution store, it is called a ‘farm solution’. | A solution package is deployed to the solution store of a site collection, it is called a ‘sandboxed solution’. |
| The components in a farm solution generally run with full trust, although it is possible to deploy an assembly in a farm solution with a custom CAS policy that gives it less than full trust. | The components of a sandboxed solution run under several significant code execution and resource access restrictions. |
| Only a farm administrator can install a farm solution. | A site collection administrator can deploy a sandboxed solution. |
| Less resource restriction. | Each sandboxed solution must conform to certain hard limits on the system resources that it can use. |
