Using resources in SharePoint can initially be a bit confusing, in this post we will cover; The 2 different types of resources Provisioning resources into your SharePoint farm Using resources from both your deployment and runtime assets. Types of Resources. Provisioning Resources These are resources (resource strings) which are used from provisioning assets such as [...]
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Tag Archives: Deployment
SharePoint: The file manifest.xml does not exist in the solution package.
July 2, 2010
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Trying today to add a solution (WSP) to the farm, I get an error from STSADM saying; The file manifest.xml does not exist in the solution package. I’m pretty sure the manifest.xml file was included in the package when it was built, so I rename the WSP as a .CAB file and open it with [...]
Read moreSharePoint: SPFeatureReceiverProperties.Feature.Parent Reference
June 17, 2010
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When developing a feature receiver, you typically need a reference to one of the Object Model classes which represent the feature scope, that being; Web – SPWeb Site – SPSite WebApplication – SPWebApplication Farm – SPFarm Since within a feature receiver you don’t know how it’s being activated/installed (either using the UI or the command-line) [...]
Read moreSharePoint: The Low Down on Deployment using Feature Modules
January 15, 2010
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Andre Vala has a great post here that describes the low down on deployment using Modules within features. Summary This post is about developing features to deploy files in a SharePoint site (module features). Check the first post SharePoint 2007 Deployment: Overview for an introduction and the series index.
Read moreSharePoint Installation and Configuration
August 12, 2009
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Probably the most complete walkthrough I’ve seen so far of Installing and Configuring a SharePoint deployment is by Rodney Viana. He’s done a video walkthrough in 2 parts; SharePoint Installation Part 1 SharePoint Installation Part 2
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