SharePoint Solutions – Building and Deployment Best Practices

SharePoint solution best practices: Based on my experience, here are the best practices w.r.t solutions management in SharePoint. 1. Every customization must be a Feature-based solution. Doesn’t matter if it’s a Webpart/Event Handler/InfoPath/Content Types or file system change. You can group the features together as solutions. The solution should have event handlers…

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SharePoint Site templates, Site Definitions, Feature Stapling – Explained

The main objective of the feature stapling concept is: Pre-activate desired features automatically on creating SharePoint sites based on site definitions like Team Sites (not site template .stp). say for e.g. you want to apply branding on creating a team sites, You can use feature stapling. So, In your feature, you have…

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