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SharePoint Chrome Control

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Hi Friends, today lets talk about the ‘Chrome Control’ in SharePoint Add-in. I hope you all aware of the name change that Microsoft had brought for SharePoint Apps which is now represented as ‘Add-In’. Don’t be scared about the control, this is nothing but the SharePoint Bar which is termed as Chrome Control. Whether it is SharePoint on-premise or SharePoint online the SharePoint Bar will have some links, settings icon, help icon. Also, the app site will have the ribbon control with the link to the parent site and other stuff. This best part of the chrome control is the client-side rendering where it is rendered based on the options and the use of ‘SP.UI.Controls’ js file which we will see later in this post. By default, when you create a SharePoint Hosted Add-in the default.aspx it will inherit from the ‘default.master’ which has the chrome control added. There are so many ways in which SharePoint Add-in can be developed and it is not mandatory that .aspx file should be the start pa