Chapter 7. Packaging, deployment, and security
This chapter covers
- Working with solution packages
- Working with SharePoint Features
- Deploying solutions
- Activating and deactivating SharePoint Features
- Upgrading solutions and Web Parts
Using Visual Studio 2010 to develop your Web Parts makes it easy to create, package, and add your solutions to SharePoint. In previous versions of SharePoint and Visual Studio, this process wasn’t automated, which forced developers to learn how to script SharePoint solution deployment. Even though the new toolset helps you with packaging and deployment during development, you’ll eventually deploy the solution to a nondevelopment environment. So it’s important to know the basic administrative tasks for SharePoint solutions and Features. Knowing how and when to upgrade solutions is also an important issue. SharePoint 2010 has new features that make the upgrading process easier and more efficient. Taking advantage of these features allows for more agile development and reduces server maintenance and downtime.