A solution package is the distribution package (file extension .wsp) that delivers your custom SharePoint code and artefacts to the web servers within your server farm.
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List of best practices on structuring SharePoint 2010 solutions
I am looking for good guidance on how to structure a SharePoint Solution including:
Visual Studio Project Structure
Features (how to separate features)
Namespaces
When to use multiple project ...
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Best way to package publishing content types
I'm currently planning on how to package my Publishing content types in a WSP to make deployment in production easier. I came a cross the following choices
1- create a feature receiver and ...
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Best practice for developing a WebService in SharePoint?
I've followed the following steps to build a WebService in SharePoint:
Created a new project using WSPBuilder.
Added a 'WebService' (Add a new web service to the layouts folder)
Do a WSBBuilder ...
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Mutliple solutions using shared dlls can cause havoc when individual solutions are retracted
Problem: Multiple solutions using shared dll's can cause havoc when individual solutions are retracted.
Example: You have a web part helper dll used by all your web part code. If you retract a ...
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What permissions are needed to deploy a WSP to SharePoint 2010?
In an attempt to make sure that developers have the appropriate rights, I'm trying to find documentation on what rights are needed to deploy WSP files to SharePoint 2010 (via stsadm or otherwise).
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Best practices for creating a shared code library for SharePoint projects
I have several projects for SharePoint 2010 (mostly they are separate solutions built each to separate wsp's) in active development. And I have a similar tasks in these projects (logging, ...
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Problem installing web part using Powershell
We've developed a custom Visual Web Part using Visual Studio 2010 for Sharepoint 2010 Server.
The webpart gets deployed when executed from VS (F5), so we can add it wherever we want using Sharepoint ...
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Protect wsp file from Reverse Engineering
How to protect wsp file so no one can read my source code. When we change wsp file extension from wsp to zip, it gives all dll file and this dll can be extracted from .net reflector and get all source ...
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SharePoint Online web template debugging
I'm trying to develop a custom web template to use with SharePoint Online. I created an empty web online and saved it as a template (without content). I then loaded that WSP into Visual Studio and ...
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How to reproduce Visual Studio “Deploy” action?
It seems like whenever I am developing a web part and I "Deploy" it from Visual Studio, everything gets deployed and works exactly as I would expect.
When I take my WSP and try to install it to a ...
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Sharepoint Q&A tool like Stack Exchange
Are there any add-ons to Sharepoint to provide a Q&A type of site like this one or Stack Exchange? This would be for an internal corporate intranet, rather than a public site. I know there are ...
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Anyone manage to deploy a WSP without it forcing an IISReset?
I'm working in SharePoint 2010 and have been unable to deploy (or retract) my WSP without causing an IISReset. Here's my situation:
The solution contains:
Fields
One content type
A page layout ...
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Is it possible to modify existing solutions/templates?
I modified the master page of a site and I would like to make all new sites that get created to use this master page by default. Is there a way to modify the built in site templates to use this master ...
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Building VS 2010 projects for SharePoint 2010 & 2007
I am curious if anybody else out there is trying to development a single SharePoint product that works with both SP2007 and SP2010, and what approach you have taken to structure your Visual Studio ...
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Can't deploy packaged page layouts because they are already in the content database
In our SP2010 publishing site we have a lot of content (publishing pages) which are associated with custom page layouts. These page layouts have previously been edited on the server using SharePoint ...
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Error occurred in deployment step 'Add Solution': Index (zero based)
Error occurred in deployment step 'Add Solution': Index (zero based) must be greater than or equal to zero and less than the size of the argument.
Getting this error on deployment both from CA and ...
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Where is Package menu item in Visual Studio 2012
I'm using visual studio 2012 for developing SharePoint 2010 solutions, back in vs2010 there was a menu item names "Package" so I can get the package without deploying it and I noticed it's disappeared ...
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How to install a WSP that has dependant assemblies?
I have a solution in Visual Studio 2010 that is made up of 3 projects.
I have one project for my SharePoint 2010 custom timer job, one project (Project A) that is used by my custom timer job, and ...
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modify web.config programatically to add a workflow authorized type
I need to add a line in the web.config under authorizedtypes, I want to do it with a wsp solution so that sharepoint takes care of syncrhonizing it with other front end servers.
I just want to put ...
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Use a supplemental .config file just for a web application
I'm trying to add a section into the web.config of a SharePoint 2010 application and I created a webconfig.myname.xml in the \14\CONFIG folder. I then ran the following command to apply the changes:
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Has the deployment of resource files and site maps been improved in SharePoint 2010
All the SharePoint applications I work on use resource files to allow localisation and sitemap files to integrate with breadcrumbs.
It has always been a problem to deploy and process these files as ...
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Enumerate every solution for each WebApplication
I'm performing an inventory and I need to get list of sharepoint solutions (*.wsp) deployed to every individual web-application and ideally, it would also be great to list what Application pool on ...
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How can I compare WFEs to ensure a WSP was deployed succesfully?
I'm a sharepoint 2007 administrator.
We are running with two WFE and deployed a wsp package recently, we suspect that the deployment was not completely successful.
we would like to compare the WSPs ...
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Migrating SharePoint Features from WSS 3.0 to SharePoint 2010
I try to Migrate a SharePoint 2003 (WSS 3.0) to SharePoint 2010.
I do it with the detach database method.
After I run the test-spcontentdatabase to the restored contentdatabase. I get some errors ...
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Is it possible to export a site workflow?
If I have a Site Workflow on my development machine, what's the best way to deploy it onto the production system which is hosted on Microsoft SharePoint Online?
I have found a way of doing it which ...
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Explain it to me: SharePoint deployment scope, solution and features
There are different levels of scope for deployment, but I have not been able to find a definitive explaination of when each applies and what the restrictions are that require loosening (or tightening) ...
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Deploying SharePoint 2010 WSP to MOSS 2007
Please help me on this. Is it possible to deploy a WSP solution developed in SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2007. I know this is very akward question, but right now I am asked this very same question ...
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Retracting solution from Central Admin?
In Central Administration I went to System Settings->Manage Farm Solutions
In there I selected the WSP I want to retract, clicked the Retract Solution link and clicked "OK" with all of the ...
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What's wrong with Uninstall-SPSolution and AllWebApplications parameter?
When I try to uninstall WSP with following line, everything is ok:
Uninstall-SPSolution project.wsp # no error - OK
When I try to add switch parameter -AllWebApplications, I get error (something ...
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Retract solution in sharepoint 2010
How to retract a sharepoint solution without having remaining list intances, workflows, data etc?
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Adding a WSP through the Management Shell?
I have a WSP that I am trying to install on my development SharePoint server. I used the Management Shell to do this:
Add-SPSolution -LiteralPath c:\temp\mySolution.wsp
and then:
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Completely remove a WSP from SharePoint
What is the best way to completely remove a WSP from SharePoint? SO when you reinstall it again from scatch it thinks it is a clean install?
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Adding Features during Solution Update
Is there a supported method to add features during a solution update.
We call Update-SPSolution and then upgrade our old features using SPFeature.Upgrade
but any new features in the solution do not ...
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Possible to modify the contents of a WSP through code?
I have a base WSP and I would like to create an automated process to update one of the files that it contains (an XML file).
Is there anything in the Object Model that would allow me to do this? ...
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What is causing a “Cannot find a Feature” error when uninstalling a solution?
I have a weird error when trying to deploy a solution via Visual Studio 2010:
Error 1 Error occurred in deployment step 'Add Solution': The solution
cannot be deployed. The feature ...
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Tools for deploying solutions
I'm looking for an easier way of deploying multiple solutions. I know I can write some scripts which handle all my WSP packages (both install and uninstall), but I want something more automated.
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Import wsp with studio 2010
I imported a WSP that was in the gallery (put in there by the old developer) into a new studio wsp import project. It looks really noisy (too much stuff that we don't even use when creating a site ...
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wsp deployment sometimes doesn't update gac-ed assembly on all servers
We are finding recently, with our wsp deployments, that on some of the WFE/APP servers in our farm that the assembly contained in the WSP, which should be gaced, is updating some servers but not all. ...
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Deploying all components of an InfoPath form plus managed code as a solution
Has anyone successfully packaged up an InfoPath form solution with the following features?
Custom site columns for properties promoted from form
Custom content types to be associated with form
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Getting AssemblyFileVersion of a wsp **without** a feature
I got a monitoring page where I show the version of all web parts, features etc.
If I use features with Event Receiver I can easily get the version. If the Feature has no event receiver I solved that ...
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What is the recommended best practice for updating a SharePoint Solution (WSP)?
What is the best way to update a SharePoint solution in a multi-server production environment? We have 2 Web Front Ends which are hardware load balanced and 1 application server. I don't want to ...
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What can be excluded from source control in SPT 2010 solution (VS 2010)?
Besides the usual bin and obj folders, what else can be excluded from source control in the Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint solution I've built?
I'm particularly interested in whether the pkg and ...
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.wsp/.cab file creation in SharePoint
So I had to dismantle a .wsp file to correct some pathing issues that wouldn't fix any other way in feature.xml (this is a site template), and now can't seem to find a decent utility to put the ...
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How can I make sure the features in my solution activate in the correct order?
I'm working on a fairly large SharePoint 2010 project. We have broken up the code into a number of solutions, each containing a number of features which we deploy via powershell and activate in the ...
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error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'DirectoryServices' does not exist in the namespace 'System'
I have deployed a feature (wsp) on our new production server but get the following error:
error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'DirectoryServices' does not exist in the namespace 'System'
The ...
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How to find the localized name of the Web Part Gallery
I have learned (still a SP-Noob...) that I have to take care of removing webParts that I deployed as part fo a solution myself.
Now I have coded something like
string file = "MyWebPart.webpart"; ...
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Export SPD List Workflow to Visual Studio 2010
is it possible to export a SPD List associated workflow into a .wsp-Package for further editing in Visual Studio 2010? Since it is possible with reusable workflows i wanted to know whether it is ...
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SharePoint 2010 Deployment: WSPBuilder 2010 or MSBUILD?
I'm new to SharePoint (SP) deployment. I need to deploy a SharePoint Foundation (SPF) 2010 solution.
Currently, while debugging, I've been deploying it locally a la CTRL+F5. This generates the WSP ...
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Reading from text files within a sandboxed solution
So I have a set of plain text files included in some directories within sandboxed solution. I want to use these text files to programmatically insert data to SharePoint Online using an event receiver.
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Activate features on subsite Sharepoint 2010
I have a problem when I activate the feature on the subsite. I try to create a wsp package with the module and feature. In the module I have stp files (list templates).
<?xml version="1.0" ...
