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Master pages/page layouts deployed as Feature not updating

Since Deploying master pages and page layouts as a Feature has been the most heavily commented article on this blog, and several of the posters seem to have run into the same problem, I wanted to write a quick post with some more information from my experiences on this. So this is something of a non...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-01-2007
STSADM export, Content Deployment, Content Migration API, Features/Solutions - deployment options compared

Back in May I wrote a post titled SharePoint deployment options : Features or Content Deployment? , which discussed some thoughts on what was the "right" way to move assets from development to production (and perhaps environments in between) during the site development process in SharePoint...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-29-2007
Site definitions - custom code in the site creation process

This is the second article in a series of three, where I aim to show how to customize the site creation process (known as site provisioning) with your own API code. The full introduction and series contents can be found at http://sharepointnutsandbolts.blogspot.com/2007/07/article-series-custom-permissions...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-12-2007
Building and deploying SharePoint Solution packages

Following a comment left elsewhere on this blog, I thought I'd cover exactly what SharePoint Solution packages are, including how they are built and deployed to other SharePoint environments. First of all, let's be clear on exactly what a Solution package is. Note I'm using 'Solution'...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-22-2007
Modifying 'system' pages in SharePoint safely - with sample code

In a presentation I gave recently I talked about modifying admin screens within SharePoint. By this, I mean areas such as the site admin area and the central admin area: Site admin: Central admin: Now, if your boss (or your users) asks you to add or change functionality in these areas, how would you...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-12-2007
Feature to create lookup fields on Codeplex

In a recent post I posted some sample code for a feature receiver which would create lookup fields (site columns which get their data from lists). A couple of people left comments asking for full set of files. I've put these on Codeplex at http://www.codeplex.com/SP2007LookupFields . Some notes:...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-20-2007
Deploying content types as a feature

This is the third article in my series of how to create common SharePoint site artifacts as features. Last time we looked at creating site columns as a feature . Site columns are typically used in lists and/or content types. The concepts are fairly simple since a content type is also effectively a list...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-17-2007
Sample code - creating list based site columns as a feature

I promised in an earlier post to post the code I used to create list-based site columns as a feature. The basic idea here to use CAML as far as possible to define the site column, but use code to inject the list ID which the column refers to (unknown at feature design-time since SharePoint decides the...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-14-2007

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