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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 development cookbook

By : Ed Musters
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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 development cookbook

By: Ed Musters

Overview of this book

<p>There is a heavy demand in the marketplace for SharePoint developers that you could take advantage of - if only you had the opportunity to acquire the relevant skills! But, SharePoint 2010 is a big old product with a steep learning curve &ndash; where do you begin? <br /><br />This book has been designed to take the experienced ASP.NET developer from &ldquo;beginner&rdquo; to &ldquo;professional&rdquo; SharePoint developer in the shortest amount of time. You will be productive on you very first SharePoint development assignment with the knowledge and skills that you learn here. You will have distilled the essence of the author&rsquo;s many years of training, and leading development teams in SharePoint. <br /><br />This book uncovers the most common &ldquo;pattern&rdquo; of typical SharePoint development tasks encountered in the real world and puts the topics in a logical order with detailed step-by-step recipes for you to follow. <br />The practical example given builds and flows throughout the chapters and topics. By the end of this book, you will be able to apply the concepts to the challenges ahead of you!</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Packaging SharePoint Solutions


Regardless of the type of Visual Studio Solution you develop – a regular web application or even a Windows application – eventually you will need to "package" it for the purpose of deploying it to another server or client computer. Such packaging is varied and may be a Cabinet (.CAB) file, a Microsoft Installer (.MSI) file, or a setup.exe (your classic setup wizard). The packaging format for SharePoint is a SharePoint Solution, having a file extension of .WSP. A server administrator will be able to deploy your WSP file with a combination of PowerShell commands and/or Central Administration.

Some summary points about SharePoint Solution files:

  • They are files of CAB format that are used to package physical files up for deployment to SharePoint Servers

  • Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint 2010 tools will automatically create this file for you, that is automatically do the "packaging"

  • You can give WSP files to Server Administrators to install / deploy your features to other...